The American West The Reader Author:Walter Nugent (Editor), Martin Ridge (Editor) An anthology of classic articles tells the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, and from Homesteading and mining to the Great Depression and World War II. — Where is the American West?: report on a survey / Walter Nugent -- — The American West: from frontie... more »r to region / Martin Ridge --
Frontiers and empires in the late nineteenth century / Walter Nugent --
Rancheras and the land: women and property rights in Hispanic California / Gloria Ricci Lothrop --
Mountain man as Jacksonian man / William H. Goetzmann --
Bison ecology and bison diplomacy: the southern Plains from 1800 to 1850 / Dan Flores --
Mexican opinion, American racism, and the War of 1846 / Gene M. Brack --
Mormon "deliverance" and the closing of the frontier / Martin Ridge --
Sand Creek / Janet LeCompte --
Cowboy strikes and unions / David E. Lopez --
"Everything I want is here!": the Dakota farmer's rural ideal, 1884-1934 / Paula M. Nelson --
"The men have become organizers": labor conflict and unionization in the Mexican mining communities of Arizona, 1900-1915 / Phil Mellinger --
Idaho and the Great Depression / Leonard J. Arrington --
The impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles / Arthur C. Verge --
Japanese-American women during World War II / Valerie Matsumoto --
From Esteban to Rodney King: five centuries of African American history in the West / Quintard Taylor --
Regional city and network city: Portland and Seattle in the twentieth century / Carl Abbott« less