This bibliography lists journal articles, monographs, and book chapters that compare the rhetoric and imagery of the Canadian and U.S. and Wests.
One myth, two Wests: special issue on the West(s), ed. C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker,
The American Review of Canadian Studies 33:4 (Winter 2003).
Highlights from this issue:
Robert Thacker, Introduction: No Catlin without Kane; or, really understanding the American West, 459-471.
R. Douglas Francis, Turner versus Innis: bridging the gap, 473-485.
Lee Clark Mitchell, Whose West is it anyway? or, what’s myth got to do with it? The role of “America” in the creation of the Myth of the West, 497-508.
Brian W. Dippie, One West, one myth: transborder continuity in Western art, 509-541.
William H. Katerberg, A northern vision: frontiers and the West in the Canadian and American imagination, 543-563.
David L. Williams, Prairies and plains: the levelling of difference in Stegner’s Wolf Willow, 607-616.
Michael Cross, ed.,
The Frontier Thesis and the Canadas: the debate on the impact of the Canadian environment, Issues in Canadian History, Toronto: The Copp Clark Publishing Company, 1970.
Daniel Francis,
National dreams: myth, memory, and Canadian History, Vancouver, BC: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1997.
R. Douglas Francis, In search of a prairie myth: a survey of the intellectual and cultural historiography of Prairie Canada,
Journal of Canadian Studies 24:3 (Fall 1989): 44-69.
Carol Highham and Robert Thacker, eds.,
One West, two myths: a comparative reader, Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2004.
Highlights from the collection:
Elliot West, Against the grain: state-making, cultures, and geography in the American West, 1-21.
Donald Worster, Two faces west: the development myth in Canada and the United States, 23-45.
Robert Irwin, Breaking the shackles of the Metropolitan thesis: prairie history, the environment and layered identities,
Journal of Canadian Studies 32:3 (Fall 1997): 19 pages. Lexis-Nexis Academic. Last accessed 07/12/2005.
Elizabeth Jameson and Jeremy Mouat, "Telling Differences: The Forty-Ninth Parallel and Historiographies of the West and Nation," Pacific Historical Review 75.2 (2006): 186-230. Frances W. Kaye, An Innis, not a Turner: comparative historiography of the Canadian and U.S. Wests, American Review of Canadian Studies 31:4 (Winter 2001): 10 pages. EBSCOHost/Academic Search Premier. Acession number: 6586233. Last accessed 09/19/2006.
Doug Owram, Promise of Eden: The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980.F.H. Underhill, Reflections on the liberal tradition in Canada, In
Approaches to Canadian history, ed. Ramsay Cook, Craig Brown, and Carl Berger, 29-41. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.
J.M.S Careless, Frontierism, metropolitanism, and Canadian history, In
Approaches to Canadian history, ed. Ramsay Cook, Craig Brown, and Carl Berger, 63-83. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.