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050 00 $aF 591$bN84 1999
100 1 $aNugent, Walter T. K.
245 10 $aInto the West :$bthe story of its people /$cWalter Nugent.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bA.A. Knopf,$c1999.
300 $axxiii, 493 p., [16]p. of plates :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [435]-475) and index.
505 0 $aWhere the West Is and Why People Have Gone There -- The Mysterious West -- The Five Motivators of Migration into the West -- Where Did the Buffalo Roam, Anyway? -- Plains to the Pacific or Just Dodge City to the Sierras? -- The Agrarian Dream vs. the Old/Golden West -- From Time Immemorial to 1848 -- Arrowheads, Large Animals, and Cliff Dwellings -- Cortes, Onate, and New Spain -- Spanish California and Its Missions -- The Also-Ran Empires: France, Russia, and Britain -- America's Empire for Liberty -- The United States Captures Its West, 1848-1889 -- The Gold Rush Flood -- The Gold Rush as Melting Pot -- The Settlement Frontier: Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota Territory -- Abilenes and Tombstones: Cattle Drives and Cattle Towns -- The New Northwest -- Creating the Mormon Culture Area -- California Latifundia -- The Future and It Worked: Creating Pasadena and Los Angeles -- The West as an Urban Frontier -- Defying the Depression, 1889-1901 -- Depression, Frontier Persistence, and the New West -- Indian Territory Becomes Oklahoma -- The Nadir Period for Indian Population -- The Farm Depression: Irrigation as Salvation -- Riding the Railroads--and the Rails -- Whistle-Stops: The Great Plains -- The Great Basin -- The Pacific West -- State Making and the Offshore West -- The Golden Twilight of the Settlement Frontier, 1901-1913 -- Homesteading's True Heyday -- Wheat Country, from Texas North -- Dakota the Multicultural -- Down the Front Range -- Homesteading amid the Mountains -- Mining as an Industry, Miners as Communities -- The Ethnic West -- Issei and Nisei -- The West in 1913 -- Tourists, Honyockers, Mexicans, and More, 1914-1929 -- World War I and the 1920s -- The Tourist Vanguard: The West Becomes Terra Cognita -- Honyockers' Hell -- Defeat and Retreat: Case Studies -- The Oil Patches -- The Entrada of the Mexicans -- The Mexican Revolution -- Mexicans' Destinations -- The Pot Thickens: Europeans, Blacks, and Asians -- Los Angeles and the Metropolitan West -- Dust Bowl and Depression, 1929-1941 -- A Pause between Two Americas -- The Urban West in the Depression -- The Demographic Baseline -- The Mexican Repatriations -- Asians, Europeans, and the Nativist Laws -- Out of the Dust Bowl, Off the Farms -- Did the New Deal Affect Western Population? -- The War, the Baby Boom, and Slouching toward Watts, 1941-1965 -- The War Stimulus -- "Relocating" the Japanese-Americans -- The Great Exodus Heads West -- The Baby Boom -- Freeways and California Dreams, 1945-1960 -- The Minority Mosaic in Southern California -- The Postwar West: A Brief Tour -- Anglos and Braceros on the Plains -- Slouching toward Watts, 1960-1965 -- "Where It All Starts, " 1965-1987 -- The Collapse of the Baby Boom -- The Immigrants' Return: The Act of 1965 -- Alternatives and Countercultures -- The 1973 Oil Crisis, Slow Growth, and Environmental Demography -- Metropolises and Leading Edges -- Purple Mountains and Fruited Plains: The Interior West -- The Leading Edge, 1987-1998 -- Trends Probable and Trends Problematic -- Immigration "Reform and Control, " 1986 -- The Fall and Rise of California -- Last Tour of the Century -- Some Postmillennial Projections.
650 0 $aLand settlement$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xPopulation.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEthnic relations.
651 0 $aWest (U.S.)$xRace relations.
948 $a03/17/2000$b03/28/2000
999 $aF 591 N84 1999$wLC$c1$i31786101220785$d8/15/2007$e7/31/2007 $lCIRCSTACKS$mNULS$n9$rY$sY$tBOOK$u6/11/2003