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The American West: a new interpretive history
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Yale University Press
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English
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From the Book - Second edition.
Introduction: dreams and homelands
A new world begins
Contest of cultures
The struggle of empires
The land and its markers
Finding purchase
War and destiny
Machine
A search for community
The urban frontier
New frontiers
As the west goes ...
"It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at."
From the Book
Preface
Introduction: dreams and homelands
A new world begins
Contest of cultures
The struggle of empires
The land and its markers
The fur trade
From Texas to Oregon
War and destiny
Mining frontiers
The power of the road
Open range
The safety valve
A search for community
The urban frontier
Plunder and preservation
Myth of the West
The frontier and West in our time
Notes.
Illustrations: The Spaniards arrive in the Southwest: Navajo pictogram, Canyon del Muerto, Arizona, c. eighteenth century / Helga Teiwes -- Canadian Indian / Louis Nicolas, from Codex Canadienis -- Delaware chief, Tishcohan / Gustavus Hesselius, 1732 -- Mohawk leader, Joseph Brant / Gilbert Stuart, 1786 -- George Rogers Clark / John Wesley Jarvis, c. 1820 -- Little Turtle, Miami chief and war leader of Ohio confederacy / copy of a lost portrait by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1796 -- Red Jacket / Charles Bird King -- Plains Indian pictogram on a buffalo robe / copy by Samuel Seymour, c. 1819 -- Fur trade rendezvous near Green River / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Indians and trader examine furs, late nineteenth century -- Pawnees in council with the Stephen Long expedition / Samuel Seymour, 1819 -- Juan Seguin / Jefferson Wright, 1838 -- Major Ridge, Cherokee chief -- Black Hawk and his lieutenants in chains / George Catlin -- Wagon train passing through Castle Creek Valley / W. H. Killingworth -- Jesse Benton Fremont / Carleton Watkins, c. 1850 -- Brigham Young / Frederick H. Piercy, 1855 -- John A. Sutter / Pach, 1877 -- General John E. Wool and his staff entering Saltillo, Mexico, 1847 -- Juan Cortina, c. 1870 -- White Horse, Pawnee scout / William Henry Jackson, c. 1869 -- Antislavery militia in Kansas, c. 1856 -- George Bent and his Cheyenne wife, Magpie, niece of Black Kettle, c. 1867 -- Chinese and American miners work the head of Auburn Ravine, 1852 -- Two Chinese toughs, Blackfoot, Idaho, c. 1870 -- Sioux Indians at Fort Laramie for the treaty conference, 1868 -- Sitting Bull / Bailey, Dix, and Meade, 1882 --A Sioux version of the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Sioux Indian Painting, 1938 -- An American version of the Battle of the Little Bighorn / Frederick Whittaker -- Female prospectors on their way to the Yukon / B.W. Kilburn, 1899 -- Prostitutes in Dawson City, Yukon Territory / B.W. Kilburn, 1899 -- Homestake Mine, Lead City, Dakota Territory / J.C.H. Grabill, 1888 -- Red River carts and Indians / Stanley Morrow, c. 1870 -- Stagecoach at Elko, Nevada / A.J. Russell, c. 1869 -- Temporary and permanent bridges at Green River, Wyoming / A.J. Russell, c. 1869 -- Apache chief, Geronimo / E.K. Sturtevant, c. 1886 -- Jesse and Frank James, c. 1875 -- Wichita, Kansas, 1870 and 1875 -- A mountain of buffalo bones, c. 1880 -- The Johnson County invaders -- Horace Greeley, 1872 -- Nebraska homesteaders post in front of their soddy [ cow on roof, two mules, dog ] / Solomon D. Butcher, c. 1880 -- Women homesteaders pose outside their tar-paper shack in South Dakota, c. 1910 -- Populist orator, Mary Lease, c. 1890 --
Illustrations: Industrial Workers of the World cartoon, c. 1910
Mormon family in Utah / A.J. Russell, c. 1869
The Spees family [ black ], homesteaders near Westerville, Colorado, c. 1880
A group of Chiracahua Apache students on their arrival at Carlisle Indian School, and four months later, c. 1890
Arapaho Ghost Dancers / James Mooney, 1893
Burial of the dead at Wounded Knee / George Trager, 1890
Texas Rangers pose with the corpses of Mexican raiders near the Rio Grande / Robert Runyon, 1915
Mexican cotton pickers on strike in California's San Joaquin Valley, 1933
A crowd celebrates the arrival of Owens River water in Los Angeles County, 1913
Japanese Americas assemble for internment, Bainbridge Island, Washington / Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 3, 1942
Yosemite Valley / Albert Bierstadt, c. 1875
A tourist and a resident of Yellowstone National Park, c. 1935
Lumberjacks fell a giant spruce in Washington / C. Kinsey, c. 1900
President Theodore Roosevelt stands with Gifford Pinchot and John Muir at Sequoia Grove in California's Sierra Nevadas, 1903
Naturalist Herma Albertson Baggley poses in ranger uniform with coworkers at Yellowstone National Park, 1933
John Collier meets with a group of Oglalas at the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1933
Apache cowboys on a roundup in Gila County, Arizona / Gilbert Campbell, 1941
Navajo shepherds with their flock / Edward S. Curtis, c. 1905
Portraits of three western Indians : Kaskaia; Shienne chief [ Cheyenne ]; Arappaho [Arapaho] / Samuel Seymour, c. 1820
Snake girl swinging / Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1837
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak / Albert Bierstadt, 1863
The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone / Thomas Moran, 1872
Yellowstone geyser / Thomas Moran, 1871
Smelting works at Denver / Thomas Moran, 1892
The intersection of San Vicente and Fairfax Avenues, Los Angeles, 1922 and 1966
Tribal chairman George Gillette weeps as Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug purchases 155,000 acres of the Mandan-Arikara-Hidatsa reservation in North Dakota for use as a Missouri River reservoir / William Chaplis, 1948
Russell Means and other occupiers of Wounded Knee / Richard Erdoes, 1973
Cesar Chavez at a farmworkers' strike in Tulare County, California, 1965
United Farm Workers election poster, c. 1965
Forest Service officials conduct journalists on a tour of clear-cut and terraced hillsides in the Bitterroot Mountains in Montana / Dale Burk, 1979.
Maps: Native culture areas
Tribal locations
The Spanish invasions
Three North American empires in the eighteenth century
The Spanish North in the eighteenth century
Western land claims of the states
The survey system
The Northwest Territory
The Louisiana Purchase and the fur trade
Texas
Indian Removal
The overland trails
The U. S.-Mexican War
Territorial acquisitions and statehood
Western mining
Western railroads
Texas cattle trails
Indian land cessions
The foreign-born population in 1900
Federal lands in the West
Western cities, 1990
Indian reservations
Emerging minorities.
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