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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAST FRONTIER CASINO
IN AMERICAN HISTORY
by
Cayetano Ferrer
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF FINE ARTS
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Cayetano Ferrer
Object Description
| Title | The significance of The Last Frontier casino in American history |
| Author | Ferrer, Cayetano |
| Author email | cayetanoferrer@gmail.com; cferrer@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Fine Arts |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-01 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 10 Aug. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-08-10 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | White, Charles |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Zittel, Andrea Tumlir, Jan |
| Abstract | Las Vegas is a city that was born out of the history of American expansion into the west, and like many western cities retains some residual traits of the frontier. But unlike the other cities of its size, it was built entirely after the frontier had been officially declared closed by the U.S. Census. The frontier ethos was manifested again in various ways here, most distinctly in the casinos fashioned after old west style gambling halls, but also in the development of military technology and new economic enterprise. As Las Vegas became the fastest growing city in the country, it also became the site of a new symbolic architecture that monumentalized the frontier, monuments that would eventually be demolished to make way for new development. |
| Keyword | Las Vegas; atomic bomb testing; casino architecture; frontier |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Las Vegas |
| Geographic subject (state) | Nevada |
| Coverage date | 1940/2007 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3372 |
| Rights | Ferrer, Cayetano |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ferrer-3915 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume48/etd-Ferrer-3915.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Full text | THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LAST FRONTIER CASINO IN AMERICAN HISTORY by Cayetano Ferrer A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF FINE ARTS August 2010 Copyright 2010 Cayetano Ferrer |
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