Author:
West, Elliott, 1945- author.
ImprintLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2023]
Descriptionxxxiii, 628 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Prelude: 773,510,680 acres -- Part 1. Unsettling America -- The great coincidence -- Division and multiplication -- Letting blood -- The horse and the hammer -- Conquest in Stutter Step -- Carnal property -- The fluid west -- Continental reckoning -- Civil War and the "Indian problem" -- Part 2. Things Come Together -- Iron bands and tongues of fire -- Connections real and imagined -- Maps -- The "science of man" and the American Sublime -- The world's convention -- Crew cultures, cribs and schoolhouses, women on the fringe -- Part 3. Worked into Being -- Cattle and the New America -- Wind, fever, and Indians unhorsed -- Breaking the land -- Domination and extinction -- When the west turned inside out -- Legal wrestling, the land convulsed -- The final undoing -- Creating the west.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-595) and index.
Note:"Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880."-- Provided by publisher.
