Nineteenth-century Americans imagined the "Wild West" as all of the following EXCEPT:
a. a distant, timeless place, uncorrupted by civilization.
b. isolated farms, where men and women carved out difficult lives on the Great Plains.
c. a spectacle of adventure as portrayed by vaudeville shows featuring famous battle reenactments and real Indian warriors.
d. a violent frontier recounted through dime novels and prolific newspaper stories.
e. an uncivilized space that ended at the Rocky mountains.