Frontiers : a short history of the American West /
An introduction to the history of the American West from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans to the present day.
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
c2007.
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| Series: | The Lamar series in western history.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Dreams and homelands
- A New World begins
- Contest of cultures
- The struggle of empires
- The Western land and its markers
- The fur trade
- From Texas to Oregon
- War and destiny
- Mining frontiers
- The power of the road
- Open range
- The safety valve
- A search for community
- The urban frontier
- Plunder and preservation
- The myth of the frontier
- The frontier and west in our time.