Challenging Frontiers

Lorry Felske is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. He has written numerous articles and acts as an historical consultant to many different groups and societies. Geoffrey Simmins is Associate Dean, Research, Planning, and Infrastructure, in the University of Calgary's Faculty of Arts. His publications include both contemporary and historical books, exhibition catalogues, numerous encyclopedia articles, and videos on Canadian art and architectural history. Michael McMordie is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of Calgary. David Taras is the Ralph Klein Chair in Media Studies at Mount Royal University. He is the author of The Newsmakers: The Media's Influence on Canadian Politics and Power and Betrayal in the Canadian Media. Max Foran has been working the field of western Canadian history for over thirty years and has published on various urban, rural, and cultural topics. He is currently a professor in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. R. Douglas Francis is a professor of history at the University of Calgary. He has published extensively in the areas of Canadian and western Canadian intellectual and cultural history. Beverly Rasporich has written many articles on Canadian arts and culture, Native art and literature, Canadian humour, ethnicity, and multiculturalism. She is author of Dance of the Sexes: Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro and the CD-ROM Western Place/Women's Space, and is co-editor of A Passion for Identity. Ann Davis is Director of The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary and a prominent art critic, curator, and teacher. She is the author of The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940 and numerous articles and essays on twentieth-century Canadian art. Sarah Carter teaches history at the Univerisity of Alberta. Janice Dickin is professor emerita in the Department of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary. Her areas of study include medical history, life writing, and Canadian social history. Tamara Palmer Seiler is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary. She has written widely on the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on Canadian culture and, in particular, on Canadian literature. She has co-authored two books on the history of Alberta.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Challenging FrontiersLorry W. Felske and Beverly RasporichImages of the WestNaming the WestShooting a Saskatoon (Whatever Happened to the Marolboro Man?)Aritha van HerkEarly Interpretation of Region Regionalism, Landscape, and Identity in the Prairie WestR. Douglas FrancisCelebrating Magpies: Artists Paul Kane Hongeeyesa, and Emily CarrAnn Davies Challenging Western History and Frontier Myth-MakingFilling in Historical Absence Two Months in Big Bear's Camp, 1885: Narratives of "Indian Captivity" and the Articulation of "Race" and "Gender" Hierarchies in Western CanadaSarah Carter Roughing It in the West, or, Whose Frontier, Whose History?Janice Dickin Diversifying Our Past: Finding a Place for Coal Mining Communities in Alberta's Historic IdentityLorry W. FelskeDe-Mythologizing Cowboys and Indians When the "Wild West" is Me: Re-Viewing Cowboys and IndiansEmma LaRocque Managing Contradictory Visions of the West: The Great Richardson/Weadick ExperimentRobert Seiler and Tamara SilerHank Snow and the Eastern Frontiers of Western MusicBrian RustedNew FrontiersThe Deconstruction of Architecture and Western HistoryStandard Prairie Grain Elevators: A Disappearing IconGeoffrey SimminsFrom Somewhere to Everywhere to Nowhere: The Bank of Montreal and a Case of Vanishing IdentityMichael McMordie Forces of ChangeAsian Immigration to Western CanadaMadeline A. KalbachChinese-Language Media across the WestLloyd ScibanThe Reform and Alliance Experiments: Federal Politics in Western CanadDavid Taras Constancy Amid Change: Ranching in Western CanadaMax ForanContemporary Artists: The New Mythmakers North/Western Aurages: The Soundscapes of Allan Gordon BellMarcia Jenneth Epstein Rodeos, Ranching, and the House of Tea: Irene McCaugherty and Esther Warkov Re-Invent the WestBeverly RasporichContributorsIndex

Challenging Frontiers lives up to its title in challenging the monochromatic definition of âfrontierâ that has played across most of western North American "frontier theory." Francis W. Kaye, Canadian Ethnic Studies