The articles in this section focus on the literary and performance precursors to the Western as a genre of filmmaking.
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Heritage of Mining
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Bury My Heart
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Dime Novel Western
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Battle Re-enactment
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The Forgotten Era
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Matthew J. C. Cella. "The Ambivalent Heritage of Mining in Western American Literature: Wheeler's Dime Novels and Austin's The Land of Little Rain." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment Vol. 16, No. 4 (Autumn 2009): 761-778.
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Michelle Ann Abate. "'Bury My Heart in Recent History': Mark Twain's 'Hellfire Hotchkiss,' the Massacre at Wounded Knee, and the Dime Novel Western." American Literary Realism Vol. 42, No. 2 (Winter 2010): 114-128.
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George W. Chilcoat. "The Dime Novel Western: Studying the American/Canadian West." Middle School Journal Vol. 24, No. 4 (March 1993): 66-69.
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Kristen Whissel. "Placing the Spectator on the Scene of History: The Battle Re-enactment at the Turn of the Century, from Buffalo Bill's Wild West to the Early Cinema." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 22, No. 3 (2002): 225-243.
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Rebecca S. Wingo. "The 'Forgotten Era': Race and Gender in Ann Stephens's Dime Novel Frontier." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 38, No. 3 (2017): 121-140.
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Masculinity for the Million
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Daniel Worden. "Masculinity for the Million: Gender in Dime Novel Westerns." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory Vol. 63, No. 3 (Autumn 2007): 35-60.
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