Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past

by Peter Boag

2011 · Univ of California Press

Americans have long cherished romantic images of the frontier and its colorful cast of characters, where the cowboys are always rugged and the ladies always fragile. But in this book, Peter Boag opens an extraordinary window onto the real Old West. Delving into countless primary sources and surveying sexological and literary sources, Boag paints a vivid picture of a West where cross-dressing—for both men and women—was pervasive, and where easterners as well as Mexicans and even Indians could redefine their gender and sexual identities. Boag asks, why has this history been forgotten and erased? Citing a cultural moment at the turn of the twentieth century—when the frontier ended, the United States entered the modern era, and homosexuality was created as a category—Boag shows how the American people, and thus the American nation, were bequeathed an unambiguous heterosexual identity.

Stories from the Camera

by Thomas F. Barrow, Geoffrey Batchen, Van Deren Coke, Sarah Greenough, Christopher Kaltenbach, Robert ParkeHarrison, Beaumont Newhall, Eugenia Parry, Meridel Rubenstein, Richard Rudisill, April M. Watson, Carla Williams, Joel-Peter Witkin

2015 · University of New Mexico Press

Appendix Two: University of New Mexico Art Museum Directors and Curators -- Bibliography of Related Works -- Index -- Back Cover