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The Wild, Wild Web: The Mythic American West and the Electronic Frontier
Western Historical Quarterly2000Vol. 31(4), pp. 457–457
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Abstract
This essay explores the ways in which the electronic frontier builds upon the mythology of frontier expansion generally and the western American frontier in particular, including economic opportunity, danger/uncertainty, individualism, outlaw behavior, vigilantism, and nostalgia.
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