The forgotten founders : rethinking the history of the Old West

The forgotten founders : rethinking the history of the Old West /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Udall, Stewart L.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Covelo, Calif. : Island Press ; Shearwater Books, ©2002.
Subjects:	West (U.S.) > History West (U.S.) > Historiography

Table of Contents:

Native peoples : the first forgotten founders
European settlers : human faces, far-flung places
Explorers and fur trappers
The religion factor in western settlement
The manifest destiny morass
California gold fever
Bootstrap capitalism in the Old West
The Wild West and the wrenching of the American chronicle
The Wild West and the settlers : contrasting visions.