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1.

What They Didn't Teach You about the Wild West » Read Now
by Mike Wright. 370 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Mike Wright exposes the hidden events of the growth and development of the Wild West. His unique approach to research has brought to life a wealth of bizarre and curious facts.
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A New Significance: Re-Envisioning the History of the American West » Read Now
by Clyde A. Milner II, Allan G. Bogue. 318 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." A century later, many of the country's most innovative scholars of Western history assembled at a conference at Utah State University under the direction of historian Clyde A...
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In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner published his revolutionary essay, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." A century later, many of the country's most innovative scholars of Western history assembled at a conference at Utah State University under the direction of historian Clyde A. Milner II. Here they delivered papers meant to map the exciting new territory opened in recent years in the history of the West. Gathering the best of these essays, this collection aims to produce a compelling assessment of the newest Western historiography. The timely, vigorous entries go beyond conventional narratives of westward expansion, and make clear the stimulating uses of scholarship informed by recent critical and multicultural theory. Contributors include William Deverell on the significance of the West in American history; David Gutierrez on Mexican Americans and cultural identity; Susan Rhoades Neel on nature and the environment; Gail M. Nomura on Asia and Asian Americans; Anne F. Hyde on cultural perceptions; David Rich Lewis on twentieth-century Native Americans; Susan Lee Johnson on men, women and gender; and Quintard Taylor on the history of African Americans in the West. Each essay is accompanied by commentaries written by other top scholars in the field, and the eminent historian Allan G. Bogue supplies a lucid introduction.
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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900 » Read Now
by Maria E. Montoya. 299 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

""Translating Property is a very important and timely contribution to the historiography of the American West. It is a splendid study of the role of U.S. courts in consolidating colonialism, explicated through highly textured and nuanced narrative, and supported by reams of fastidious historical...
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""Translating Property is a very important and timely contribution to the historiography of the American West. It is a splendid study of the role of U.S. courts in consolidating colonialism, explicated through highly textured and nuanced narrative, and supported by reams of fastidious historical research. Translating Property is one of the finest examples of historical prose I have read, extending our understanding of the racial and gender aspects of law. This is the historian's craft at its best."--Ramon Gutierrez, author of "When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers Went Away
""Translating Property is a unique and important contribution to the history of the American West and to Chicano History, both in situating the land grant and its people in the context of the rise of global capitalism and European imperialism, and in recognizing the complexity and multiplicity of ethnic and racial divisions and unities"--Sarah Deutsch, author of "Women and the City: Gender, Space and Power in Boston (1870-1940) and "No Separate Refuge: Culture, Class and Gender on an Anglo-Hispanic Frontier in the American Southwest (1880-1940)
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From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was » Read Now
by Charles W. Allen, Richard E. Jensen. 292 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...which was formerly the old Red Cloud Indian...about forty miles west of Three Mile Ranch...through which the famous old scout and guide...march to the extreme west to...
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 » Read Now
by R. Eli Paul. 248 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Addressing the Nebraska Indian Wars between 1865 and 1877, this anthology of well-written articles from the journal NEBRASKA HISTORY is the essential introduction to a bitterly contested period in the state's history. R. Eli Paul has assembled a first-rate anthology of eyewitness accounts and the...
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Addressing the Nebraska Indian Wars between 1865 and 1877, this anthology of well-written articles from the journal NEBRASKA HISTORY is the essential introduction to a bitterly contested period in the state's history. R. Eli Paul has assembled a first-rate anthology of eyewitness accounts and the most significant historical scholarship on the subject. 32 photos. map.
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Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 » Read Now
by Robert M. Utley. 384 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...transcontinental railway advanced west from the Missouri...Population centers old and new--Sacramento...Harney, Cooke, and "Old Ben" Beall, for example...experienced as the...
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That Damned Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898 » Read Now
by Michael L. Collins. 234 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...With "Ellie" and "West" he climbed trees...the fallen ruins of old log forts and the...had decided to go west to Dakota where he...the twenty-four year-old Vallombrosa had...
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They Built the West: An Epic of Rails and Cities » Read Now
by Glenn Chesney Quiett. 574 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Howard Streets of the West. Strong young men, broken old men, unkempt, unshaven...with letters a month old from the East; when...which have built the West we know to-day...
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Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 » Read Now
by Sandra L. Myres, Ray Allen Billington, Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber. 366 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...and often replaced old myths and stereotypes...the winning of the West. The study that follows...attempt to demolish the old myths about westering...liberating virtues of...
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So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier » Read Now
by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage, Christiane Fischer Dichamp. 330 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library
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Blacks in the West » Read Now
by W. Sherman Savage. 230 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...out to be the Promised Land. Into the new region white settlers brought with them old attitudes that were sometimes given the sanction of law. Nevertheless, the West did...
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Forgotten Kingdom: The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896 » Read Now
by David L. Bigler. 411 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This volume tells of the Mormon church leaders' struggle to establish in Utah an independent, theocratic Kingdom of God.
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A Dynasty of Western Outlaws » Read Now
by Paul I. Wellman, Richard Maxwell Brown. 384 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...rustled the pages of many an old newspaper. To this endeavor...of Oklahoma Press, 1982 ; West of Hells Fringe: Crime, Criminals...carried on as a tradition in the West long...
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American Frontier and Western Issues: A Historiographical Review » Read Now
by Roger L. Nichols. 303 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Frederick Jackson Turner, the Old West, and the Formation of a National...Frederick Jackson Turner, the Old West, and the Formation of a National...regional Western...
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Desert Lawmen: The High Sheriffs of New Mexico and Arizona, 1846-1912 » Read Now
by Larry Ball. 414 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Valley, lay 300 miles to the west of Mesilla, the county seat and...built man, about forty years old; his long black hair hung low...Column--entered Arizona from the West...
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Artists and Illustrators of the Old West, 1850-1900 » Read Now
by Robert Taft. 406 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...Artists and Illustrators of the OLD WEST 1850-1900 ARTISTS AND ILLUSTRATORS OF THE OLD WEST 1850 - 1900 By ROBERT TAFT...intense interest and admiration of the Old West. I...