Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past
ISBN-10
0393310639
ISBN-13
9780393310634
Category
United States
Pages
354
Language
English
Published
1993
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Authors
William Cronon, Jay Gitlin, George A. Miles

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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