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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Chapter One: The View from Cahokia
- Chapter Two: Empires and Enclaves
- Chapter Three: Making the First American West
- Chapter Four: Taking the Farther West
- Chapter Five: The Whitening of the West
- Chapter Six: The Watering of the West
- Chapter Seven: The Worldly West
- Chapter Eight: The View from Mt. Lee
- References
- Further reading
- Index
