Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Challenging Frontiers
• Lorry W. Felske and Beverly Rasporich
• Images of the West
• Naming the West
• Shooting a Saskatoon (Whatever Happened to the Marolboro Man?)
• Aritha van Herk
• Early Interpretation of Region
• Regionalism, Landscape, and Identity in the Prairie West
• R. Douglas Francis
• Celebrating Magpies: Artists Paul Kane Hongeeyesa, and Emily Carr
• Ann Davies
• Challenging Western History and Frontier Myth-Making
• Filling in Historical Absence
• Two Months in Big Bear's Camp, 1885: Narratives of "Indian Captivity" and the Articulation of "Race" and "Gender" Hierarchies in Western Canada
• Sarah Carter
• Roughing It in the West, or, Whose Frontier, Whose History?
• Janice Dickin
• Diversifying Our Past: Finding a Place for Coal Mining Communities in Alberta's Historic Identity
• Lorry W. Felske
• De-Mythologizing Cowboys and Indians
• When the "Wild West" is Me: Re-Viewing Cowboys and Indians
• Emma LaRocque
• Managing Contradictory Visions of the West: The Great Richardson/Weadick Experiment
• Robert Seiler and Tamara Siler
• Hank Snow and the Eastern Frontiers of Western Music
• Brian Rusted
• New Frontiers
• The Deconstruction of Architecture and Western History
• Standard Prairie Grain Elevators: A Disappearing Icon
• Geoffrey Simmins
• From Somewhere to Everywhere to Nowhere: The Bank of Montreal and a Case of Vanishing Identity
• Michael McMordie
• Forces of Change
• Asian Immigration to Western Canada
• Madeline A. Kalbach
• Chinese-Language Media across the West
• Lloyd Sciban
• The Reform and Alliance Experiments: Federal Politics in Western Canad
• David Taras
• Constancy Amid Change: Ranching in Western Canada
• Max Foran
• Contemporary Artists: The New Mythmakers
• North/Western Aurages: The Soundscapes of Allan Gordon Bell
• Marcia Jenneth Epstein
• Rodeos, Ranching, and the House of Tea: Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov Re-Invent the West
• Beverly Rasporich
• Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Lorry Felske earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in History and is currently a professor at the University of Calgary in the Faculty of Communication and Culture. He has written numerous articles and conference papers and acts as an historical consultant to many different groups and societies. Beverly Rasporich has written many articles on Canadian arts and culture, Native art and literature, Canadian humour, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Canadian Studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.

Reviews

Challenging Frontiers lives up to its title in challenging the monochromatic definition of âfrontierâ that has played across most of western North American "frontier theory." Francis W. Kaye, Canadian Ethnic Studies