期刊名称：The Reading Room: A Journal of Special Collections
电子版ISSN：2375-6101
出版年度：2019
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：25-40
出版社：University at Buffalo
摘要：Tis article describes the genre of specialized magazines known as “nonfctionwestern magazines.” Tese magazines focused on telling stories about the “OldWest”—the nineteenth-century western United States. Joe Small foundedthe genre’s frst magazine, True West, in 1953. Over the next thirty years, themagazine’s popularity increased and dozens of imitators were published. Tisarticle discusses the rise and decline of these magazines and also explores themagazines’ usefulness both as a source of western American history and ascultural artifacts themselves to study how the “Old West” was perceived duringthe period in which they were published.
关键词：western American history; western Americana; magazines; print;culture; publishing history
