The American West; The Reader

NUGENT, Walter and RIDGE, Martin, eds

ISBN 10: 0253335302 / ISBN 13: 9780253335302

Published by Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1999

About this Item

Illus. 8vo, maroon cloth. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, (1999). Fine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The American West; The Reader
• Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0253335302
• ISBN 13: 9780253335302
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • WESTERN AMERICANA
  • AMERICANA

About this title

Synopsis

"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." —Nebraska History

Designed 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.

About the Author

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.