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ShaunHuston — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:55:38 CST

This is the Wiki Reference for Visualizing the West: Scholarship, collaboration, and creativity about the cultural representation of the Western U.S. and Canada. This website is meant to be a starting point and resource for researchers, teachers, writers, and artists. It features review articles, guides to sources, glossaries, and other materials useful to the critical examination of existing images and the creation of original projects.

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Comparative rhetoric and imagery: a bibliography

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 16:25:17 CST

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.

Online image archives

ShaunHuston — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:25:28 CDT

This is a list of online image archives related to the western U.S. and Canada.

From American Memory at the U.S. Library of Congress:

History of the American West.
Photos from a collection at the Denver Public Library (http://www.denver.lib.co.us/).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award97/codhtml/hawphome.html

The American Indians of the Pacific Northwest collection.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/pacific/

Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters.
From Nebraska State Historical Society (http://www.nebraskahistory.org).
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/nbhihtml/pshome.html

Braceros in Oregon Photo Collections
Oregon State University Archives
http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/client/bracero/

California Heritage Collection at the Online Archive of California
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CalHeritage/

Las Vegas and Water in the West
From the UNLV Libraries Digital Collections and Exhibits
http://www.library.unlv.edu/water/

Oregon Historic Photograph Collection
From the digital collections of the Salem Public Library
http://photos.salemhistory.org/

United States Forest Service Photo and Video Library
http://www.fs.fed.us/photovideo/

British Columbia Archives at the Royal BC Museum
http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/visual/visual.htm

CN Images of Canada Gallery Collection of photos held by Canadian National.
Photos are from photographers hired by Canadian rail companies, chiefly Canadian National Railways.
http://216.94.16.48/index1.html

Images Canada, a project of the National Library (http://www.collectionscanada.ca/)
http://www.imagescanada.ca/r1-200-e.html

TimeLinks Image Archive for Manitoba
http://timelinks.merlin.mb.ca/photo.htm

Alaska and Western Canada Collection
From the University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
http://content.lib.washington.edu/alaskawcanadaweb/index.html