Download or read book Early-Twentieth-Century Frontier Dramas on Broadway written by R. Wattenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontier dramas were among the most popular and successful of early-twentieth-century Broadway type plays. The long runs of contemporary dramas not only indicate the popularity of these plays but also tell us that these plays offered views about the frontier that original audiences could and did embrace.