WRPR 133: The American West in Fact and Fiction (HC)

This guide contains research tools and materials for your class projects.  Use the tabs on the left to navigate through the guide.

    A Dash for the Timber, Frederic Remington, 1889 (Source: Wikimedia Commons public domain)

The resources here will provide you with academic material for your essay.  When you select and read articles, be aware of the following issues:

• Expertise - What is the author's training?  Has he or she published other material in this subject area?

• Audience - Who are the intended readers?  Is it for the general public or for college students and researchers?

• Discipline Focus - What subject approach does the author take?  Historical, religious, literary?  If literary, is there a special interest in a particular kind of interpretation, such as linguistic, psychoanalytic or gendered?

• Documentation - Is there a bibliography for further reading?  Are there titles there that are new to you?

• Date - If the article was published more than 10 years ago, can you find a more recent point-of-view?