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

Writing Program 133: The American West in Fact and Fiction (Lapsansky) Spring 2024

The Hudson River School of Art

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The Valley of Wyoming, Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1865 (Source: Wikimedia Commons, public domain)

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog Connect from Bryn Mawr College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  to look for relevant books owned by Haverford, Bryn Mawr, and Swarthmore.

The following subject searches are a sampling of possibilities. To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search (Any Field in Tripod) to find some relevant material and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.

               children west* united states history [Keyword]      Icon  

(child OR children) AND  Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) [Subjects]    Icon

(costume OR clothing OR dress OR fashion ) [Any Field] AND (west (u.s.) OR california* OR texas* OR texan*) [Subject] AND history [Subject]     Icon    

yosemite [Keyword] AND  photograph*  [Subject]     Icon