Labode, ModupeKeen, Rusti LeighScarpino, Philip V.Wokeck, Marianne Sophia2012-11-162012-11-162012https://hdl.handle.net/1805/3087http://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/168Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)This thesis will look at the various images of the American Far West presented by the Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer, and will examine his editorial strategy that promoted the Far West as a last land of opportunity while also recognizing and weighing in on the challenges of that region.en-USMagazinesSaturday Evening PostSaturday evening post -- History -- 20th centuryLorimer, George Horace, 1869-1937American periodicals -- History -- 20th centuryUnited States -- Social life and customsPopular culture -- West (U.S.)West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th centuryWest (U.S.) -- Civilization -- 20th centuryWest (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryWest (U.S.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th centuryWest (U.S.) -- In mass media -- 20th centuryFrontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- PeriodicalsFrontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Pictorial worksNational characteristics, AmericanPacific and Mountain States -- History -- 20th centuryThesis