Into the West: The Story of Its People

Sampul Depan
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18 Des 2007 - 544 halaman
Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the Spanish Conquistadors, to displaced Okies, wartime African American immigrants, and all the disparate groups that have made California the most ethnically diverse state in the union.

Their tale, in all its complexity, is a tale that surprises, that subverts traditional stereotypes and that illuminates the multifaceted character of one of the world’s most unique and dynamic territories.

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Where the West Is and Why People Have Gone There
3
From Time Immemorial to 1848
19
The United States Captures Its West 18481889
57
Kansas Nebraska and Dakota Territory
65
Cattle Drives and Cattle Towns
73
Creating the Mormon Culture Area
80
Creating Pasadena and Los Angeles
89
The West as an Urban Frontier
95
Tourists Honyockers Mexicans and More 19141929
174
Dust Bowl and Depression 19291941
227
The War the Baby Boom
255
Where It All Starts 19651987
312
The Leading Edge 19871998
351
Notes
381
Bibliography
435
Index
477

Defying the Depression 18891901
101
The Golden Twilight of the Settlement Frontier 19011913
131

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Walter Nugent taught history at the University of Notre Dame from 1984 to 1999, and before that, was Professor of History at Indiana University for twenty-one years. As a visiting professor he has also taught and lived in England, Israel, Germany, Poland, and Ireland. He has published nine previous books and well over a hundred essays and review on American and comparative history. He lives with his wife, the historian Suellen Hoy, in Chesteron, Indiana.

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