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Job Name: -- /421923t JOURNAL of An Illustrated Quarterly Devoted to the Western History and Culture Published by ABC- CLIO, LLC Title Registered U.S. Patent Office ® Dr. Steven L. Danver, Managing Editor west JOURNAL of the WEST ISSN 0022- 5169 ABC- CLIO, LLC, P.O. Box 1911, Santa Barbara, CA 93116 USA Shipping address: 147 Castilian Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93117 USA Editorial email: journalofthewest @abc - clio .com Customer Service email: journalofthewest @sfsdayton .com • Customer Service phone: 800- 771- 5579 PUBLISHER: Ronald J. Boehm, ABC- CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, California MANAGING EDITOR: Steven L. Danver, Walden University and Mesa Verde Publishing, Vancouver, Washington BOOK REVIEW EDITORS: Brian S Collier, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame Indiana Richard Vaughan, Indiana University School of Law Library, Bloomington, Indiana COPY EDITING: Anne Friedman, San Francisco, California EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD: Honorary Lifetime Board Members: Duane A. 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Job Name: -- /421923t An Illustrated Quarterly JOURNAL of Devoted to the Western History and Culture west Vol. 58, No. 2, Spring 2019 Spring The Famous and the Infamous In the West 2019 Editor: Steven L. Danver, Walden University THE WESTERN FORUM R. J. Cardullo 3 Westward Faux ARTICLES Charles N. Herrick 12 Cliven Bundy and the Underrepresentation of Self and Place Identity in Multiple-Use Land Management Policy in the Western United States Alexander O’Gorman 29 Nimi’ipuu: Religion and the Purveyors of Religious Acculturation Lonnie E. Underhill 41 Bill Cook: Outlaw in the Indian Territory, 1894–1895 Bruce Cammack 62 “A Wondrous, Free Life This”: The Texas Adventures of Elliott Roosevelt REVIEW ESSAY Abraham Hoffman 73 Power, Politics, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst Steven C. Haack 77 The Diaries of Reuben Smith: Kansas Settler and Civil War Soldier 80 BOOKS FOR THE WESTERN LIBRARY 90 INDEX In order to view this proof accurately, the Overprint Preview Option must be set to Always in Acrobat Professional or Adobe Reader. Please contact your Customer Service Representative if you have questions about finding this option. Job Name: -- /421923t The Western Forum is intended as a place where THE WESTERN FORUM experienced professionals can speculate, sound off, or otherwise be provocative. Westward Faux R. J. Cardullo Once the richest and most enduring genre of Holly- violence, and meanness presumably missing from pre- wood’s repertoire, the Western is now beyond revi- vious Western movies. Yet this alleged recovery of the sionism and mere decline: it seems to me to be dead. real Old West actually amounted to little more than a Nearly 65 years ago, Robert Warshow could write that revision of cinematic history, for filmmakers merely the Western “presents an image of personal nobility substituted new myths for the old ones. that is still real for us” (111). But this claim could Sam Peckinpah was the leading mythmaker of hardly be made today; our tolerance for the Western’s the revisionist movement, beginning with such early rigid formulas and limited characterizations has all films of his as The Deadly Companions (1961) and but disappeared. When the classic chase and show- Ride the High Country (1962). He shattered the image down sequences could generate no further variations, of personal nobility by having over- the- hill stars— the vitality of the form was sapped. This generic William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Randolph Scott, self- exhaustion was abetted, as well, by the rise of Joel McCrea—play distinctly ignoble, over-the- hill what became known as the revisionist Western—the cowboys. Their weary, cynical, even mercenary screen “shoot- ’em- up” that undermines its own conventions. personae thus cast as much doubt on the actors’ own To some extent, revisionist or self-conscious West- careers as on frontier history. Peckinpah’s masterwork erns have been around since the turn of the twentieth The Wild Bunch (1969), for instance, used armed rob- century. The Edison Company’s 1905 film The Little bers at its center, or Westerners who, having outlived Train Robbery, for example, was a parody of its own their role and milieu subsequent to the closing of the success just two years earlier with The Great Train American frontier, became outlaws rather than the Robbery (which itself grew out of a nineteenth-century victims of industrio- technological progress. His intent American theater that was rife with Western dramas). in featuring such thieving gunmen was not to glorify And the adult Westerns of the late 1940s and early criminality but to enhance his own mythmaking. The 1950s, like The Gunfighter (1950) and High Noon first of these new myths was that the West gave the (1952), showed their own forms of self- consciousness. romance of the robber—the mounted robber—a pan- They concentrated on the psychological or moral con- oply of glamor; the second was that the illegal behav- flicts of the individual protagonist in relation to his ior of such a criminal could be likened to the legal society in an effort to make cowboys more realistic in behavior of rapacious civilians (especially entrepre- contrast to the heroic, idealized figures of such epic neurs) and marauding soldiers. Westerns as The Covered Wagon (1925) and Stage- The invidious historicism of this kind of film coach (1939). To be sure, the latter- day revision- was most apparent in Little Big Man and Soldier ists also aimed at realism—showing the hypocrisy, Blue, both released in 1970. Each of these pictures JOW, SPRING 2019, Vol. 58, No. 2 THE WESTERN FORUM—R. J. 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