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| Publisher | : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Recounts the settlement of the West from the first pioneers who crossed the Appalachians to the eventual disappearance of the frontier.
| Author | : Richard W. Etulain |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780826340337 |
This new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast and includes experiences and contributions of American Indians, Hispanics, and African Americans.
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| Publisher | : Stoecklein Publishing(ID) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005-11 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 9781933192246 |
David R. Stoecklein's latest book of photography celebrates the long-standing traditions of cattle and cattle ranching in the United States as well as all the changes that have occurred in the industry. The images depict the beautiful and often harsh environments where these operations exist and the noble animals that helped to settle the American West.
| Author | : Terese Svoboda |
| Publisher | : Mad Creek Books |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780814255209 |
Stories from prehistoric times to the future, about land, our abuse of the land, and the impact on the people who come after
| Author | : Dee Brown |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 815 |
| Release | : 2012-12-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 147110933X |
As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.
| Author | : John S. Hockensmith |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Authors, American |
| ISBN | : 9780806199757 |
A stunning photographic legacy of the horse’s reintroduction to North America Horses are an integral part of the American experience. They are so tied with the development of the nation and its psyche, it is impossible to imagine history without them. Yet prior to the arrival of Spanish explorers in the 1500s, horses had been absent from North America for millennia. In this beautifully illustrated volume, celebrated equine photographer John S. Hockensmith reveals how the return of horses with the conquistadors both altered American Indian cultures and later supported the development of the United States. Gracing these pages are stunning full-color photographs of modern horses that carry the distinctive traits of their Spanish, Arab, and Barb forebears. Captured visually in the rugged Rocky Mountains or the rolling grassy plains of the West, these horses are our shared living legacy. From the tender private moments between mare and foal to the aggressive determination of clashing stallions, Hockensmith throws open a breathtaking window on these horses’ lives. Given the ongoing debate about the future of North America’s wild horses, many of which trace their ancestry to Spanish steeds and the early mustangs, this work will stand as a significant marker on the mutual path traveled by horse and human.
| Author | : Sarah Deutsch |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 523 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 149622955X |
To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898 to the Great Depression's end, from the Mississippi to the Pacific, policymakers at various levels and large-scale corporate investors, along with those living in the West and its borderlands, struggled over who would define modernity, who would participate in the modern American West, and who would be excluded. In Making a Modern U.S. West Sarah Deutsch surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940. Centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region--the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders--Deutsch attends to the region's role in constructing U.S. racial formations and argues that the West as a region was as important as the South in constructing the United States as a "white man's country." While this racial formation was linked to claims of modernity and progress by powerful players, Deutsch shows that visions of what constituted modernity were deeply contested by others. This expansive volume presents the most thorough examination to date of the American West from the late 1890s to the eve of World War II.
| Author | : Christopher Ketcham |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 434 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0735220980 |
"The public lands of the western United States comprise some 450 million acres of grassland, steppe land, canyons, forests, and mountains. It's an American commons, and it is under assault as never before. Journalist Christopher Ketcham has been documenting the confluence of commercial exploitation and governmental misconduct in this region for over a decade. His revelatory book takes the reader on a journey across these last wild places, to see how capitalism is killing our great commons. Ketcham begins in Utah, revealing the environmental destruction caused by unregulated public lands livestock grazing, and exposing rampant malfeasance in the federal land management agencies, who have been compromised by the profit-driven livestock and energy interests they are supposed to regulate. He then turns to the broad effects of those corrupt politics on wildlife. He tracks the Department of Interior's failure to implement and enforce the Endangered Species Act--including its stark betrayal of protections for the grizzly bear and the sage grouse--and investigates the destructive behavior of U.S. Wildlife Services in their shocking mass slaughter of animals that threaten the livestock industry. Along the way, Ketcham talks with ecologists, biologists, botanists, former government employees, whistleblowers, grassroots environmentalists and other citizens who are fighting to protect the public domain for future generations. This Land is a colorful muckraking journey--part Edward Abbey, part Upton Sinclair--exposing the rot in American politics that is rapidly leading to the sell-out of our national heritage"--
| Author | : Jason E. Pierce |
| Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2016-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1607323966 |
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.
| Author | : Kenneth W. Rendell |
| Publisher | : Whitman Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Americana |
| ISBN | : 9780794833596 |
The American Dream is fundamentally about hope -- the hope that a better life awaits your initiative, your cleverness, your hard work. It's about making your own future. In The Great American West, we see the American Dream as it used to be: in ancient maps and colorful broadside posters, in letters sent home by lonesome gold miners, in newspaper clippings about famous outlaws, in drawings and photographs and diaries from the frontier. Immersed in this unique collection of Western artifacts, we can answer the question: "Is the American Dream still alive today?" -- book jacket.
