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245 04 $aThe Oxford history of the American West /$cedited by Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O'Connor, and Martha A. Sandweiss.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1994.
300 $axiii, 872 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 2 $aIntroduction: America Only More So / Clyde A. Milner II -- Ch. 1. Native Peoples and Native Histories / Peter Iverson -- Ch. 2. The Spanish-Mexican Rim / David J. Weber -- Ch. 3. Empires of Trade, Hinterlands of Settlement / Jay Gitlin -- Ch. 4. American Frontier / Elliott West -- Ch. 5. National Initiatives / Clyde A. Milner II -- Ch. 6. Entering the Global Economy / Keith L. Bryant, Jr. -- Ch. 7. Animals and Enterprise / Richard White -- Ch. 8. An Agricultural Empire / Allan G. Bogue -- Ch. 9. A Saga of Families / Kathleen Neils Conzen -- Ch. 10. Religion and Spirituality / Ferenc M. Szasz and Margaret Connell Szasz -- Ch. 11. Violence / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Ch. 12. Wage Earners and Wealth Makers / Carlos A. Schwantes -- Ch. 13. The Federal Presence / Carl Abbott -- Ch. 14. Politics and Protests / Michael P. Malone and F. Ross Peterson -- Ch. 15. A Region of Cities / Carol A. O'Connor -- Ch. 16. Alaska and Hawai'i / Victoria Wyatt -- Ch. 17. Landscapes of Abundance and Scarcity / William Cronon.
505 0 $aCh. 18. Contemporary Peoples/Contested Places / Sarah Deutsch, George J. Sanchez and Gary Y. Okihiro -- Ch. 19. The Visual West / Brian W. Dippie -- Ch. 20. The Literary West / Thomas J. Lyon -- Ch. 21. Speaking for the Past / Charles S. Peterson -- Ch. 22. Selling the Popular Myth / Anne M. Butler -- Ch. 23. Comparing Wests and Frontiers / Walter Nugent.
520 $aWhen we think of the American West, we tend to conjure up images that are known the world over: bearded forty-niners leading pack mules up a mountain trail, the Oklahoma land stampede, Custer's Last Stand, and especially the range-riding, quick-shooting cowboy. But these familiar images are only a small part of western history.
520 8 $aFrom the arrival of the Navajos in the Southwest more than seven hundred years ago, to the first Spanish settlements in New Mexico in the late sixteenth century, to the large Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake, to the tourists flocking to the neon landscape of modern Las Vegas, the complex story of the West stretches across centuries, embracing many voices and contrasting cultures. The West is in fact as varied as America itself.
520 8 $aIndeed, to enlarge on Wallace Stegner's singular phrase, the West is America, only more so.
520 8 $aLavishly illustrated and based on the finest scholarship, The Oxford History of the American West is the first comprehensive study to do full justice to the rich complexity of this region. It brings together the work of twenty-eight leading western historians who explore this area from a dazzling number of perspectives.
520 8 $aThey provide insightful portraits of the West as a distinctive place of many peoples - native and non-native, European and Asian, African and Latino - and of many terrains - from the timbered Pacific Northwest to the Dakota Badlands, and from the fires of Kilauea to the ice cliffs of Glacier Bay, Alaska. They describe the great wealth generated by a series of spectacular bonanzas, such as gold at Sutter's Mill, copper in Butte, Montana, and oil on Alaska's north shore; illuminate the role of the West in the national and global economy; and consider the environmental challenges created by replacing buffalo with cattle or by designating national parks and military test sites.
520 8 $aThe book also examines the social forces behind the violence of the West, the great political movements that affected the region (most notably, the Populist Party), and the importance of families in settling the West (including the story of one family's westward migration over 150 years). The authors provide important insights about many long-standing controversies, and they offer not only the fruits of the latest thinking about the West, but also a vivid sense of how people actually lived. For example, we read of pioneers who grated green corn to make pudding they flavored with berries and grasshoppers, and who ate the culms (the soft inner linings of the stalks) like asparagus.
520 8 $aFinally, each chapter concludes with an extensive annotated bibliography, offering a full review of related material, and there is a comprehensive index to guide readers to topics of special interest.
520 8 $aRanging from a thoughtful analysis of John Ford's classic My Darling Clementine, to a revisionist look at cattle grandee Granville Stuart (once Montana's most revered pioneer), to a survey of Western art and literature (including figures as diverse as Francis Parkman, Frederic Remington, Willa Cather, Georgia O'Keeffe, and N. Scott Momaday), this lively, authoritative volume continually challenges the familiar as it broadens the reader's understanding of a vast and varied region.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85146151
700 1 $aMilner, Clyde A.,$cII,$d1948-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81113775
700 1 $aO'Connor, Carol A.,$d1946-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82064466
700 1 $aSandweiss, Martha A.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78053343
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