The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
- ISBN-10
- 0393078809
- ISBN-13
- 9780393078800
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-02-07
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Patricia Nelson Limerick
Description
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.
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Other editions
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- 1987
- 396 pages
- Paperback
- W. W. Norton & Company
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