Encyclopedia of the American West: Abbe-Cutt
- ISBN-10
- 0028974964
- ISBN-13
- 9780028974965
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 1935
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Macmillan Library Reference
- Authors
- Charles Phillips, Alan Axelrod
Description
"The Encyclopedia focuses on the people and peoples of the West, approaching the region as a collection of multiethnic frontiers and as the spawning ground for an array of industries and enterprises that each gave rise to its own culture and carried with it important ecological consequences."--p. xi.
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