Legacy of Conquest The Unbroken Past of the American West
Author:Limerick, Patricia Nelson, Limerick, Patricia
ISBN-13:
9780393304978
ISBN:
0393304973
Pub Date: 1987
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Summary: "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today."--Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality--in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the s...tories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations. [read more]
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Product Details
Pub Date: 1987
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 9780393304978
ISBN: 0393304973
Pub Date: 1987
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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