| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xvii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 435) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface / by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns -- The northern mystery : Other wests / by Richard White -- The most avid nation : The mission at Waiilatpu : a meeting place for western women / by Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Seeing the elephant : Myth and myopia : Hispanic peoples and western history / by David G. Gutiíerrez -- A hell of a storm : Believing in the American West / by Patricia Nelson Limerick -- The grandest enterprise under God : Great migrations : the pioneer in the American West / by John Mack Faragher -- Rivers run backward : Wilderness and the West / by T.H. Watkins -- The great die-up : The American West and the burden of belief / by N. Scott Momaday -- The outcome of our earnest endeavors : Monument Valley / by Dayton Duncan. |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Duncan, Dayton.
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| ISBN |
0316922366 |
| Standard No. |
9780316922364 90000 |
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