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The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it presents the West as both frontier and region, examining the clashing of different cultures and ethnic groups that occurred in the western territories from the first Columbian contacts between Native Americans...
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This is a study of the historical context of homesteading, farming, and ranching in Wyoming from pre-Territorial incursions to around 1960. The study considers many forms of homesteading, including especially those people who took up land under any of the laws providing for the distribution of the public domain, but others as well, and thus examines the broad contours of farming and ranching.
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"Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants?men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners, who developed Nevada?s Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies. America called for greatness...and got it. There is nothing in history to match the stories of these...
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The story of Fort Fetterman is one of hardship and hard luck, but it is also the story of a frontier military post too tough to die, at least for a while. Throughout its active life, location worked both for and against it, too often the latter. Author Owen Wister visited Fetterman and used it as a basis for his fictional town Drybone, thus the title for this book. Crazy Horse called it a source of irritation, the one thing he objected to in the Treaty...
18) The West
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Chronicles the history of the American West, starting with the first European explorations and ending with the beginning of the 20th century. Examines the impact of the white settlers on the lives of the Native Americans and the land. Also discusses the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad, the battle of Little Bighorn, and the massacre at Wounded Knee.
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