| Patricia Limerick - History - 1987 - 404 pages
...but enrich it. Two Proper ty Values IF HOLLYWOOD wanted to capture the emotional center of Western history, its movies would be about real estate. John...nor a sheriff, but a surveyor, speculator, or claims lawyer. The showdowns would occur in the land office or the courtroom; weapons would be deeds and lawsuits,... | |
| Neil Smith - Architecture - 1996 - 288 pages
...to Hollywood histories of the West: If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of western history. its movies would be about real estate. John Wayne would have been neither a gunlighter nor a sheriff. but a surveyor. speculator or claims lawyer. The showdowns would appear in... | |
| Lisa Knopp - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 260 pages
...historian Patricia Nelson Limerick writes, "If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of western history, its movies would be about real estate. John...nor a sheriff, but a surveyor, speculator, or claims lawyer. The showdowns would occur in the land office or the courtroom; weapons would be deeds and lawsuits,... | |
| Peter C. Rollins - History - 2003 - 708 pages
...Historian Patricia Nelson Limerick writes, "If Hollywood wanted to capture the emotional center of Western history, its movies would be about real estate. John...nor a sheriff, but a surveyor, speculator, or claims lawyer." She makes the point that the intersection of races and the allocation of property unified... | |
| Martin Weidinger - Western films - 2006 - 266 pages
...vermengten Mythos zu korrigieren: »If HOLLYWOOD wanted to capture the emotional center of Western history, its movies would be about real estate. John...nor a sheriff, but a surveyor, speculator, or claims lawyer. The showdowns would occur in the land office or courtroom; weapons would be deeds and lawsuits,... | |
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