Familiar figures -- missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians -- appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
Familiar figures -- missionaries, explorers, trappers, traders, prospectors, gunfighters, cowboys, and Indians -- appear in these pages. So do renowned individuals such as Daniel Boone, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, and John Wayne. But their stories contribute to a history of the American West that is longer, larger, and more complicated than we were once told.
Stephen Aron is professor of history at UCLA and chair of the Institute for the Study of the American West at the Autry National Center. He is the author of How the West Was Lost: The Transformation of Kentucky from Daniel Boone to Henry Clay and American Confluence: The Missouri Frontier from Borderland to Border State, the co-author of Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, and the co-editor of Trading Cultures: The Worlds of Western Merchants.
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List of illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The View from Cahokia Chapter Two: Empires and Enclaves Chapter Three: Making the First American West Chapter Four: Taking the Farther West Chapter Five: The Whitening of the West Chapter Six: The Watering of the West Chapter Seven: The Worldly West Chapter Eight: The View from Mt. Lee References Further reading Index
List of illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The View from Cahokia Chapter Two: Empires and Enclaves Chapter Three: Making the First American West Chapter Four: Taking the Farther West Chapter Five: The Whitening of the West Chapter Six: The Watering of the West Chapter Seven: The Worldly West Chapter Eight: The View from Mt. Lee References Further reading Index
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