The American West
by Ridge, MartinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-10-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." -- Nebraska HistoryDesigned for survey courses -- yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion -- these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. Provocative and illuminating.
Author Biography
Walter Nugent has been Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame since 1984. His earlier books include The Tolerant Populist: Kansas Populism and Nativism, Money and American Society 1865-1880, Structures of American Social History, and Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914. Forthcoming is a history of the people of the American West.
Martin Ridge, former president of the Western History Association and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, is Senior Research Associate in the Huntington Library. He is former editor of The Journal of American History and co-author with Ray Allen Billington of Westward Expansion: A History of the American Frontier and America's Frontier Story: A Documentary History of Westward Expansion.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Timeline | p. xiii |
| General Introduction | p. I |
| Defining the West | |
| Are We Talking About a Place? What is it? Where is it? | |
| Where Is the American West? Report on a Survey | p. II |
| The American West: From Frontier to Region | p. 24 |
| Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 39 |
| The Eighteenth Century | |
| California Women, 1769-1848 | |
| Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California | p. 59 |
| The Nineteenth Century | |
| Exploration, the Fur Trade, and National Identity, 1807-1845 | |
| Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man | p. 83 |
| Indians, Animals, and the Great Plains, 1800-1850 | |
| Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850 | p. 97 |
| The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 | |
| Mexican Opinion, American Racism, and the War of 1846 | p. 120 |
| The Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1890 | |
| Mormon "Deliverance" and the Closing of the Frontier | p. 133 |
| Indians, the Army, and Settlers, 1864 | |
| Sand Creek | p. 147 |
| Cowboys as Wage Workers, 1880s | |
| Cowboy Strikes and Unions | p. 164 |
| Homesteading, 1880S-1930s | |
| "Everything I Want Is Here!": The Dakota Farmer's Rural Ideal, 1884-1934 | p. 179 |
| The Twentieth Century | |
| Mexican, "Anglo," and European Miners and Capital, 1900-1915 | |
| "The Men Have Become Organizers": Labor Conflict and Unionization in the Mexican Mining Communities of Arizona, 1900-1915 | p. 203 |
| The Great Depression in the Northwest, 1929-1941 | |
| Idaho and the Great Depression | p. 225 |
| World War II and the Metropolis, 1941-1945 | |
| The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles | p. 234 |
| Japanese-American Women and the Internment of 1942-1945 | |
| Japanese-American Women during World War II | p. 255 |
| African Americans in the West, 1541-1993 | |
| From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American History in the West | p. 274 |
| The Pacific Northwest Since 1945 | |
| Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century | p. 295 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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