All of the following writers and artists made significant contributions to the romanticizing of the American West EXCEPT
A) Frederic Remington.
B) Mark Twain.
C) Theodore Roosevelt.
D) James Whistler.
E) Frederick Jackson Turner.

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James Whistler was a prominent artist, but his work did not specifically romanticize the American West. The other four choices all played a role in the romanticization and myth-making of the American West. Frederic Remington was a famous artist known for his depictions of the West, Mark Twain wrote extensively about the region and its people, Theodore Roosevelt was a proponent of "cowboy" culture and conservation of Western lands, and Frederick Jackson Turner's "Frontier Thesis" helped shape popular ideas about the West as a place of rugged individualism and opportunity.

All of the Following Writers and Artists Made Significant Contributions