Into the West: The Story of Its PeopleKnopf 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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... arrived in Atchison , after changing trains in Chicago from the familiar New York Central to the exotic Santa Fe ( now that was truly western ! ) , I thought I had reached the edge of the earth . Anything west of Wichita was as mythical ...
... arrived in Atchison , after changing trains in Chicago from the familiar New York Central to the exotic Santa Fe ( now that was truly western ! ) , I thought I had reached the edge of the earth . Anything west of Wichita was as mythical ...
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... arrived with its civilized amenities : government regulations , special interests , local , state and federal taxes and lawyers . " But Buffalo Bill's Wild West kept the legend going , as did dime novels and then films and television ...
... arrived with its civilized amenities : government regulations , special interests , local , state and federal taxes and lawyers . " But Buffalo Bill's Wild West kept the legend going , as did dime novels and then films and television ...
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... arrived much earlier . Whenever they came , they speak to us now only through a few bones , arrowheads , and pot shards , a little architecture , and a few petroglyphs . After about 1540 , when the Spanish and then other Europeans ...
... arrived much earlier . Whenever they came , they speak to us now only through a few bones , arrowheads , and pot shards , a little architecture , and a few petroglyphs . After about 1540 , when the Spanish and then other Europeans ...
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... arrived . Exactly when that was is uncertain . Where these humans came from and how many they were are also unknown . The conventional wisdom ( not unchallenged ) is that the first ones crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska and ...
... arrived . Exactly when that was is uncertain . Where these humans came from and how many they were are also unknown . The conventional wisdom ( not unchallenged ) is that the first ones crossed a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska and ...
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... arrived from nearby Beringia , are younger than many others thousands of miles to the south . Alternative explanations include long , eastbound voyages across the south- ern Pacific Ocean forty or fifty thousand years ago ...
... arrived from nearby Beringia , are younger than many others thousands of miles to the south . Alternative explanations include long , eastbound voyages across the south- ern Pacific Ocean forty or fifty thousand years ago ...
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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 |
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Defying the Depression 18891901 | 101 |
The Golden Twilight of the Settlement Frontier 19011913 | 131 |
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