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Author : Jacqueline Morley,David Salariya
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0531153088
Describes what life was like in the West during the period when white settlers arrived.
Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:1244857752
Author : Glenda Riley,Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806160863
Generations of Americans have seen the West as beyond federal control and direction. But the national government’s presence in the West dates to before Lewis and Clark, and since 1789 a number of U.S. presidents have had a penetrating and long-lasting impact on the region. In Presidents Who Shaped the American West, noted historians Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain present startling analyses of chief executives and their policies, illuminating the long reach of presidential power. The authors begin each chapter by sketching a particular president’s biography and explaining the political context in which he operated while in office. They then consider overarching actions and policies that affected both the nation and the region during the president’s administration, such as Thomas Jefferson’s augmentation of the West via the Louisiana Purchase, and Andrew Jackson’s removal of American Indians from the Southeast to “Indian Country” in the West. Abraham Lincoln’s promotion of the Homestead Act, a transcontinental railroad, and western territories and states free of slavery marked further extensions of presidential power in the region. Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts and Jimmy Carter’s expansion of earlier policies reflected growing public concern with the West’s finite natural resources and fragile natural environment. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s highway program, and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society funneled federal funding into the West. In return for this largesse, some argued, the West paid the price of increased federal hegemony, and Ronald Reagan’s presidency arguably curbed that power. Riley and Etulain also discuss the most recent presidential terms and the region’s growing political power in Congress and the federal bureaucracy. With an accessible approach, Presidents Who Shaped the American West establishes the crucial and formative nature of the relationship between the White House and the West—and will encourage readers to continue examining this relationship.
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136931598
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today, from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in this heavily illustrated, highly accessible volume include the effects of leisure and tourism, western women, politics and politicians, Native Americans in the twentieth century, and of course, oil. With insight both informative and unexpected, The World of the American West offers perspectives on the latest developments affecting the modern American West, providing essential reading for all scholars and students of the field so that they may better understand the vibrant history of this globally significant, ever-evolving region of North America.
Author : Joseph L. Coulombe
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780826263186
In Mark Twain and the American West, Joseph Coulombe explores how Mark Twain deliberately manipulated contemporary conceptions of the American West to create and then modify a public image that eventually won worldwide fame. He establishes the central role of the western region in the development of a persona that not only helped redefine American manhood and literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century, but also produced some of the most complex and challenging writings in the American canon.Coulombe sheds new light on previously underappreciated components of Twain's distinctly western persona. Gathering evidence from contemporary newspapers, letters, literature, and advice manuals, Coulombe shows how Twain's persona in the early 1860s as a hard-drinking, low-living straight-talker was an implicit response to western conventions of manhood. He then traces the author's movement toward a more sophisticated public image, arguing that Twain characterized language and authorship in the same manner that he described western men: direct, bold, physical, even violent. In this way, Twain capitalized upon common images of the West to create himself as a new sort of western outlaw--one who wrote.Coulombe outlines Twain's struggle to find the proper balance between changing cultural attitudes toward male respectability and rebellion and his own shifting perceptions of the East and the West. Focusing on the tension between these goals, Coulombe explores Twain's emergence as the moneyed and masculine man-of-letters, his treatment of American Indians in its relation to his depiction of Jim in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the enigmatic connection of Huck Finn to the natural world, and Twain's profound influence on Willa Cather's western novels.Mark Twain and the American West is sure to generate new interest and discussion about Mark Twain and his influence. By understanding how conventions of the region, conceptions of money and class, and constructions of manhood intersect with the creation of Twain's persona, Coulombe helps us better appreciate the writer's lasting effect on American thought and literature through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.
Author : John M. Findlay
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496234773
John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II and the Cold War, the West remained a significant and distinctive region.
Author : Stephen Krensky
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780822570394
Relates some of the exploits of Pecos Bill, the extraordinary cowboy who was raised by coyotes, rode a mountain lion, and used a rattle snake as a rope.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Family farms
ISBN : UOM:39015078697862
Author : Loretta Frances Ichord
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761318644
Presents a look at what was eaten in the American West by pioneers on the trail, cowboys on cattle drives, and gold miners in California camps, with available ingredients, cooking methods, and equipment, and includes recipes and appendix of classroom cooking directions.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Family farms
ISBN : LOC:00185854000
Author : Eric Mark Braun
Publisher : Compass Point Books
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756565817
Life on the American frontier wasn't easy. Pioneers had to deal with tough challenges including rough terrain, extreme weather, starvation, and dangerous animals. But in spite of the hardships, people persevered. Follow the true stories of those who braved the frontier and what they had to do to survive in this book from the Fighting to Survive series.
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Law
ISBN : 0815334621
Author : Joseph Albino
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781543473018
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Author : Karen R. Jones,John Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0748622527
An introduction to the history of the American West which offers a new, more balanced approach to viewing the Western past, covering the key themes and debates in Western history as well as competing academic discourses.