Author: Jeremy Agnew

Miners, loggers, railroad men, and others flooded into the American West after the discovery of gold in 1848, and entertainers seeking to fill t...

Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various new health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange ...

Western films have often been tributes to place and setting, with the magnificent backdrops mirroring the wildness of the narratives. As the splend...

Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before ridin...

Sensationalistic literature is reading material that is intended to shock, startle, excite, or arouse intense interest in a reader through the use ...

The healing arts as practiced in the Old West often meant the difference between life and death for American pioneers. Whether the challenge was...

For many years, movie audiences have carried on a love affair with the American West, believing Westerns are escapist entertainment of the best ...

Modern spas are wellness resorts that offer beauty treatments, massages and complementary therapies. Victorian spas were sanitariums, providing ...

The traditional narrative of the American West tells of a frontier settled by pioneers emigrating from the east to the Pacific coast. Yet Spanis...