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Control # 1 2022013275
Control # Id 3 DLC
Date 5 20230518132347.0
Fixed Data 8 220322s2023 nbuabf b 001 0 eng
LC Card 10    $a 2022013275
ISBN 20    $a9781496233585$q(hardback)
ISBN 20    $z9781496234445$q(epub)
ISBN 20    $z9781496234452$q(pdf)
Obsolete 39    $a334142$cTLC
Cat. Source 40    $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
Authen. Ctr. 42    $apcc
Geog. Area 43    $an-usp--$an-us---
LC Call 50 00 $aF594$b.W27 2023
Dewey Class 82 00 $a978/.02$223/eng/20220328
Other Call # 84    $aHIS036140$aHIS036040$2bisacsh
ME:Pers Name 100 $aWest, Elliott,$d1945-$eauthor.
Title 245 10 $aContinental reckoning :$bthe American West in the age of expansion /$cElliott West.
Title:Varint 246 30 $aAmerican West in the age of expansion
Tag 264 264  1 $aLincoln :$bUniversity of Nebraska Press,$c[2023]
Phys Descrpt 300    $axxxiii, 628 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm.
Tag 336 336    $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
Tag 337 337    $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
Tag 338 338    $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
Series:Diff 490 $aHistory of the American West
Note:Bibliog 504    $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 521-595) and index.
Note:Content 505 $aPrelude: 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.
Abstract 520    $a"Elliott West lays out the main events and developments that together describe and explain the emergence of the American West and situates the birth of the West in the broader narrative of American history between 1848 and 1880."--$cProvided by publisher.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1860-1890.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$y1858-1860.
Subj:Topical 650  0 $aLand use$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEconomic conditions$y19th century.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aWest (U.S.)$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory.
Subj:Geog. 651  0 $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion.
SE:Ufm Title 830  0 $aHistory of the American West.