The essential West : collected essays / Elliott West.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: West, Elliott, 1945-
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2012.
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) > History.
Physical Description:xiii, 328 pages : illustrations
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Conquest
  • Lewis and Park; or, why it matters that the West's most famous explorers didn't get sick (or at least not really sick)
  • Golden dreams: Colorado, California, and the reimagining of America
  • Called-out people: the Cheyennes and the Central Plains
  • Wired to the world: the telegraph and the making of the West
  • Reconstructing race
  • Families
  • The West before Lewis and Clark: three lives
  • Child's play: tradition and adaptation on the frontier
  • Becoming Mormon
  • Listen up: hearing the unheard in western history
  • Myth
  • Bison r us: the buffalo as cultural icon
  • Jesse James, borderman
  • American pathways
  • On the trail with Gus and Call: Lonesome Dove and the western myth
  • Stories.