The Frontier Centennial: Fort Worth and the New West (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest) free ebook download.

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Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1682830837
Pages:	320	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worths celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the citys identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the citys identity and image as a modern city of the American West.

Olmsteads retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebrations commemorative messages. Fort Worths image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the citys modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its ideological essence. Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.
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