Richard Aquila is a professor of history and American studies at Penn State University, the Behrend College, USA and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians. He has published four books, including Wanted Dead or Alive: The American West in Popular Culture.
"The Sagebrush Trail is a panoramic survey of Western movies in the
twentieth century, from Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery to
Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven and beyond. It is also a vivid history
of the culture that created and consumed this all-purpose,
ever-malleable art form whose themes and characters strike to the
heart of the American experience."--Michael Steiner, author of
Regionalists on the Left
"The Sagebrush Trail may be the most comprehensive overview of the
Western film genre to date. It does an especially impressive job of
analyzing movies--literally scores of movies--against the backdrop
of changing currents in American culture."--David M. Wrobel, author
of Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and
Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression
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