Title:
The American West : a new interpretive history / Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher.
Author:
Hine, Robert V., 1921-
Faragher, John Mack, 1945-
Publication Information:
New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2000.
Call Number:
F591 .H662 2000
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ISBN:
9780300078350
Physical Description:
x, 616 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
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Contents:
Dreams and homelands -- New world begins -- Contest of cultures -- Struggle of empires -- Land and its markers -- Fur trade -- From Texas to Oregon -- War and destiny -- Mining frontiers -- Power of the road -- Open range -- Safety valve -- Search for community -- Urban frontier -- Plunder and preservation -- Myth of the west -- Frontier and west in our time.
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