The American West (1836-1900)

The American West (1836-1900)
Author: Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher: Salem Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-19
Genre: Chinese Americans
ISBN: 9781619255333

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Defining Documents in American History: The American West offers a broad range of historical documents on important figures and topics in American West research. Written by historians and experts in the field, this resource examines a wide array of primary source documents with an in-depth critical analysis. Articles begin by introducing the reader to the document's historical context, followed by a description of the author's life and circumstances in which the document was written. A document analysis guides readers in understanding key elements of language, rhetoric, and social and political meaning that define the significance of the author and the document in American history.

The American West (1836-1900)

The American West (1836-1900)
Author: Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 9781619255340

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"Defining Documents in American History: The American West offers a broad range of historical documents on important figures and topics in American West research. Written by historians and experts in the field, this resource examines a wide array of primary source documents with an in-depth critical analysis. Articles begin by introducing the reader to the document's historical context, followed by a description of the author's life and circumstances in which the document was written. A document analysis guides readers in understanding key elements of language, rhetoric, and social and political meaning that define the significance of the author and the document in American history. From speeches to journal entries, government documents and newspaper articles, students and researchers will gain new insights into America's westward expansion, through the thoughts and letters of the brave Americans who ventured out to seek their fortunes and reshape our nation."--Publisher description.

Defining Documents

Defining Documents
Author:
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Total Pages:
Release: 2014
Genre: Electronic book
ISBN:

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The American West

The American West
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 815
Release: 2012-12-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 147110933X

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As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

The American West

The American West
Author: Richard W. Etulain
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2007-11
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, in an updated edition that includes new sections that explore the roles of ethnic groups in the new West, urban developments, western women, and events since the mid-1980s. Original.

The American West: A New Interpretive History

The American West: A New Interpretive History
Author: Robert V. Hine
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2017-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300231784

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A fully revised and updated new edition of the classic history of western America 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 and Europeans up to the end of the twentieth century.

Three Frontiers

Three Frontiers
Author: Dean L. May
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 1994-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521434997

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This book explores the values and aspirations of settlers in the Far West. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried with differing degrees of success to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately adopted the individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive values that prevailed in the New West. How did Americans move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth, but as the base of support for future generations? What led to our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being? These are questions central to this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers.

The American West

The American West
Author: Anne M. Butler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2007-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0631210865

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Tracing events from the pre-history to the present day, this book offers a concise and accessible history of the American West. Explores the complex interactions between and among cultures in the American West Chronologically organized and informed by the latest scholarship Grounded in attention to race, class, gender, and the environment, the text focuses on social, economic, and political forces that shaped the lived experiences of diverse westerners and influenced the patterns of western history.

The American West, 1840-1895

The American West, 1840-1895
Author: R. A. Rees
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 127
Release: 1986-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780582223974

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Examines life in the American West, from the time when American Indians flourished, through the spread of white settlers to the close of the frontier and the end of the battle for the Plains.

The American West

The American West
Author: Stephen Aron
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199858934

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Familiar figures - missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians - appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.