Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.
When a newspaper reporter asked J. W. Eastman, the director, why he carried a six-shooter, Eastman replied: “It's my baton.” “Is it loaded?” asked the reporter. “Yes,” said Eastman. “What for?” continued the reporter.
24 See Anne M. Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865–1890 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 50–1. 25 Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush ...
An excellent field guide to exotic and invasive plants is Sylvan R. Kaufman and Wallace Kaufman, Invasive Plants: A Guide ... 1998), and John C. Hudson's Across This Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada (Baltimore, ...
His reputation as an Army Scout was enough to land him a job as Deputy Sheriff of Yavapai County, Arizona, (a position once held by Johnny Behan) working for Bucky O'Neil and Commodore Perry Owens. In 1890 the Pinkerton National ...
This revealing volume offers fascinating portraits of the people and institutions that drove the Western conquest (traders and trappers, ranchers and settlers, corporations, the federal government), as well as of those who resisted conquest ...
Official National Park illustrated handbook chronicles how the land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean was explored, mapped, photographed, and settled between 1803 and 1879. Part one includes...
Frederic Remington , “ A Few Words from Mr. Remington , ” Collier's Weekly , March 18 , 1905 , p . ... Several of these letters are quoted in Vorpahl , My Dear Wister : The Frederic RemingtonOwen Wister Letters ( Palo Alto , Calif .
Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War.
So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
And “accepting complexity and approaching it with new tools will create a new West—which, like the old West, will demand our redoubled attentions.”27 When it comes to the study of risk and vulnerability, the Great Plains West is a key ...