"A crucial embellishment of the origin myth and key element of the national identity has been the myth of the frontier, analyzed in Richard Slotkin's Gunfighter Nation (1992), the last volume of a fascinating trilogy."
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Elizabeth Martinez De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century (1998)
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