The American West : a new interpretive history /
Robert V. Hine & John Mack Faragher.
- New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c2000.
- x, 616 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Dreams and homelands -- A New world begins -- Contest of cultures -- The Struggle of empires -- The Land and its makers -- The Fur trade -- From Texas to Oregon -- War and destiny -- Mining frontiers -- The Power of the road -- Open range -- The Safety valve -- A Search for community -- The Urban frontier -- Plunder and preservation -- Myth of the West -- The Frontier and West in our time.