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American west : competing visions / Karen R. Jones and John Wills.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- Part One Old West -- Chapter 1 Lewis and Clark: Mapping the West -- Chapter 2 Frontier Germ Theory -- Chapter 3 'The Gun that Won the West' -- Chapter 4 Cowboy Presidents and the Political Branding of the American West -- Part Two New West -- Chapter 5 Women in the West: The Trailblazer and the Homesteader -- Chapter 6 Women in the West: The 'Indian Princess' and the 'Lady Wildcat' -- Chapter 7 The Wild West Defiled: The American Indian, Genocide and the Sand Creek Massacre -- Chapter 8 The Thirsty West: Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas -- Part Three Recreating The West -- Chapter 9 The Western Renaissance: Brokeback Mountain and the Return of Jesse James -- Chapter 10 The Arcade Western -- Chapter 11 Turn here for 'The Sunny Side of the Atom': Tourism, the Bomb and Popular Culture in the Nuclear West -- Chapter 12 Re-creation and the Theme Park West -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Voices of the American West / Eli S. Ricker ; edited and with an introduction by Richard E. Jensen.
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Land in the American West : private claims and the common good / edited by William G. Robbins, James C. Foster.
Published 2000Table of Contents: “…Contested terrain : the business of land in the American West /…”
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Horses in the American West : portrayals by twenty-four artists / Heidi Brady and Scott White ; foreword by Glenn Blodgett.
Published 2018“…American Wests.…”
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Women in the American West / Laura E. Woodworth-Ney.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Finding "her story" in the American West -- Visible in everything, but invisible to history : Native American women in the North American West -- Women of the Southern borderlands, 1600-1846 -- Gender and manifest destiny, 1830-1870 -- Polygamy, prostitution, and women in Mormon and mining settlements, 1840-1890 -- The "new woman," mobility, and western space, 1877-1920 -- War, depression, and the creation of the West, 1914-1940 -- The gendered wartime and postwar West, 1941-1980 -- Late trends and new directions.…”
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The American West in 2000 : Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash / edited by Richard W. Etulain and Ferenc Morton Szasz.
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…Nash and the twentieth-century American West / Richard W. Etulain.…”
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Visions of the American West / Gerald F. Kreyche.
Published 2009Full text (Emerson users only)
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Worldviews and the American West : the life of the place itself / edited by Polly Stewart [and others].
Published 2000Full text (Open Access)
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True Stories Of The American West / BayView Entertainment.
Published 2004Streaming video (Emerson users only)
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