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• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 36,5 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 1963

Presents folklore and legends, heroes and villains, wars and important events in the history of the Old West. Includes also examples of Western art and music.

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 May 2007

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land use changes and development patterns from the Mississippi to the

• Publisher : University of Washington Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 05 June 2014

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents and travelers alike. But in

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 23,8 Mb
• Release Date : 25 December 2012

As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from

• Publisher : Pleasantville, N.Y. : Reader's Digest Association
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 1977

Recounts the settlement of the West from the first pioneers who crossed the Appalachians to the eventual disappearance of the frontier.

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 38,7 Mb
• Release Date : 10 November 2015

Dennis Adler, award-winning author and photographer, and contributing editor to Guns of the Old West magazine, has woven together enthralling tales of the guns and gunmen who made the Wild

• Publisher : University of Arizona Press
• File Size : 30,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 September 1996

Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders, ethnic

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 15 June 2022

The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and

• Publisher : Penguin
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 1993

“I’ve been thinking a lot about Cadillac Desert in the past few weeks, as the rain fell and fell and kept falling over California, much of which, despite the

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 41,9 Mb
• Release Date : 21 September 2018

The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history