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Go East, Young Man Book Subtitle: Imagining the American West As the Orient Book Author(S): Richard V University Press of Colorado Utah State University Press Chapter Title: Front Matter Book Title: Go East, Young Man Book Subtitle: Imagining the American West as the Orient Book Author(s): Richard V. Francaviglia Published by: University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press. (2011) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgphg.1 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. 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Francaviglia Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 2011 This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 2011 Utah State University Press All rights reserved Utah State University Press Logan, Utah 84322-3078 www.USUPress.org Publication of this book was supported by a grant from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Manufactured in China ISBN: 978-0-87421-809-1 (cloth) ISBN: 978-0-87421-811-4 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Francaviglia, Richard V. Go east, young man : imagining the American West as the Orient / Richard V. Francaviglia. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-87421-809-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87421-810-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-87421-811-4 (e-book) 1. West (U.S.)—Civilization. 2. Orientalism—West (U.S.)—History. 3. United States— Civilization—Asian influences. 4. Asia—Foreign public opinion, American. 5. United States— Territorial expansion. 6. East and West. I. Title. F591.F76 2011 978—dc23 This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms To the Memory of DAVID J. WEBER (1940–2010) Historian of Spain’s New World frontiers who knew that his beloved New Mexico was part of the mythic American West and an extension of the fabled Orient This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms The landscape of the West has to be seen to be believed. And, perhaps con- versely, it has to be believed in order to be seen. N. Scott Momaday, “The American West and the Burden of Belief” (1996) This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms University Press of Colorado Utah State University Press Chapter Title: Table of Contents Book Title: Go East, Young Man Book Subtitle: Imagining the American West as the Orient Book Author(s): Richard V. Francaviglia Published by: University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press. (2011) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgphg.2 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding is provided by Knowledge Unlatched. University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Go East, Young Man This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:29 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Preface ix Introduction: The Malleable Landscape 1 I The Frontier West as the Orient (ca. 1810–1920) 1. The American Zahara: Into and Beyond the Great Western Plains 25 2. In Praise of Pyramids: Orientalizing the Western Interior 64 3. Chosen People, Chosen Land: Utah as the Holy Land 87 4. Finding New Eden: The American Southwest 126 5. The Far East in the Far West: Chinese and Japanese California 155 6. Syria on the Pacific: California as the Near/Middle East 176 7. To Ancient East by Ocean United: The Pacific Northwest as Asia 202 II The Modern West as the Orient (ca. 1920–2010) 8. Lands of Enchantment: The Modern West as the Near/Middle East 223 9. Another Place, Another Time: The Modern West as the Far East 257 10. Full Circle: Imagining the Orient as the American West 288 Notes 308 Bibliography 329 Index 344 This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:29 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms University Press of Colorado Utah State University Press Chapter Title: Preface Book Title: Go East, Young Man Book Subtitle: Imagining the American West as the Orient Book Author(s): Richard V. Francaviglia Published by: University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press. (2011) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt4cgphg.3 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://about.jstor.org/terms This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Funding is provided by Knowledge Unlatched. University Press of Colorado, Utah State University Press are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Go East, Young Man This content downloaded from 195.113.180.195 on Fri, 24 Nov 2017 12:23:30 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Preface The American West may seem like familiar territory, but it is really a land of paradoxes, one of which is the subject of this book. Beyond the ste- reotypes of cowboys and Indians, modern cities and ghost towns, lies another set of images of a West that is not Western at all but has its origins in Asia and the Middle East. The paradoxical idea that the West can be East—that is, have a connection to what was once widely called “the Orient”—is evident in the region’s historical literature and modern-day popular culture. In other words, Eastern or Oriental motifs also brand this otherwise characteristically western American locale. This Orientalization of the West was apparent to me as a kid growing up in California in the 1950s, where a place named Mecca and its date palms sim- mered under the intense sun near the Salton Sea. It became even more appar- ent to me when I moved to Oregon in my early twenties and noticed artists and writers equating the Pacific Northwest’s landscape with that of China and Japan. In graduate school at the University of Oregon, I studied the Mormons’ role in shaping the landscapes of the Intermountain West. In that desert region, too, the West was Orientalized, as members of this most American of religions had been cast as peoples of the Middle East, most frequently Muslims. Over the years, I collected information on this important but neglected theme of West as East (and westerners as easterners) in American history. About ten years ago, the theme of the Orient in the American West reemerged as I taught American and transatlantic history at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Asked to teach a graduate seminar, I selected the theme “Orientalism in Transatlantic Perspective.” When I presented a lecture on “Orientalism and the Mormon West” in class early in the semester, one of my students asked when I’d be writing a book on that subject. I told her I was actually writing an extensive article that was nearly ready for publication.
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