| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 372 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Perspectives in American social history series |
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Gale eBooks
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Perspectives in American social history.
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| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Give me your home : animals and the American West / Jon T. Coleman -- American Indian peoples / D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark -- Latinos / Omar Valerio-Jimenez -- Commerce of the elsewhere : trappers and traders in the antebellum West / Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr -- Soldiers in the American West / Kevin Adams -- Mormon settlement / Jessie L. Embry -- The Black West / Dwayne Mack -- Asians and Asian Americans in the West / Lisa Hsia -- Entrepreneurs / Ryan Carey -- Working the American West / Greg Hall -- Women in the West / Martin Padget -- Bad men, unsexed women, and good citizens : outlaws and vigilantes in the American West / Helen McLure -- Artists and boosters / Flannery Burke -- Primary documents. |
| Summary |
Surveys the experiences of major social groups in the lands from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from the United States' penetration of the region in the early 19th century to its incorporation into national political, economic, and cultural fabric by the early 20th century. |
| Subject |
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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West (U.S.) -- Social conditions.
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West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations.
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West (U.S.) -- Economic conditions.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Benjamin Heber, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781851097630 DLC 2007004384 |
| ISBN |
9781851097685 (electronic book) |
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9781851097630 (alk. paper) |
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