Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

ISBN-10
039302993X
ISBN-13
9780393029932
Category
History
Pages
354
Language
English
Published
1992
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Authors
William Cronon, George Miles, Jay Gitlin

Description

Essays examine the significance of the frontier in American history, the bases of a western identity, and the themes that connect the twentieth-century West to its more distant past

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