AMERICAN WEST: IMAGES AND IDENTITIES

American Studies (AMS) 105

S.Crouthamel, American Indian Studies/American Studies

Palomar College, San Marcos, California

 

Course Information

 

Lectures

Course Syllabus

I. The American West
Assignments

II. Historical Realities
Test

III. Creating Images
Visual Artists

IV. Emerging Regional Identities
References & Literature

V. Current Images and Identities

 

Important Links

American West
Directory of Online Sources on the History of the American West
Library of Congress: American Memory
PBS The West
Paul Starr's Images of the West
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
West Web
Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University

 

Museums, Archives, and Cultural Centers of the American West

Autry Center National Center, Los Angeles, CA  
National Cowboy Museum & Western Heritage Museum  
Western Folklife Center  
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada  
Black American West Museum and Culture Center, Denver, CO