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The concept of settler colonialism offers an invaluable lens to reframe early westerns and travel pictures as re-enactments of the United States' repressed past. Westerns in particular propose a remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion that reveals a transformation in what "American Progress" came to mean. <p>Initially, these films tracked settlers moving westward across the Appalachians, Great Plains, and Rockies. Their seizure of "empty land" provoked continual resistance from I
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- Author
- Richard Abel
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780197744055
- Category
- education
- Subjects
- Western, History, Sports
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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