This episode was written using the following references:

• Balio, T. (1993). Grand design : Hollywood as a modern business enterprise, 1930-1939. New York: Scribner.
• Banita, G. (2013). Fossil Frontiers: American Petroleum History on Film. In Rosenstone, R. & Parvulescu, C. (eds), A companion to the historical film (pp. 301-327). Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Rosenstone, R. & Parvulescu, C. (2013).
• Fenin, G., & Everson, W. (1962). The Western, from silents to cinerama. New York: Orion Press.
• Geraghty, C. (2008). Now a major motion picture : film adaptations of literature and drama. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
• History.com Editors. (2009, October 29). Great Depression History. Retrieved 10 April 2020, from https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history
• Smythe. J. E. (2009). The New Western History in 1931: RKO and the Challenge of ‘Cimarron’. In Rollins, P. & O’Connor, J. (eds.), Hollywood’s West : the American frontier in film, television, and history (pp. 37-64). Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
• Turner, F. (1914). The West and American Ideals. The Washington Historical Quarterly, 5(4), 243-257. Retrieved April 10, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/40474083

To see more prestige picture and their portrayals of American history, watch:

• The Conquerors (1932) dir. William Wellman
• Looking Forward (1933) dir. Clarence Brown
• Show Boat (1936) dir. James Whale
• The Grapes of Wrath (1940) dir. John Ford