Bibliograph

Continental reckoning, the American West in the age of expansion, Elliott West

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Continental reckoning, the American West in the age of expansion, Elliott West

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-595) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Continental reckoning

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1301903434

Responsibility statement

Elliott West

Series statement

History of the American West

Sub title

the American West in the age of expansion

Summary

"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

Table Of Contents

Series editor's introduction / by Richard Etulain -- Prelude: 773,510,680 acres -- 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" -- Iron bands and tongues of fire -- Connection 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 -- 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

American West in the age of expansion

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