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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Timeline | |
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| General Introduction | |
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| Defining the West | |
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| Are We Talking About a Place? What is it? Where is it? | |
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| Where Is the American West? Report on a Survey | |
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| The American West: From Frontier to Region | |
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| Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century | |
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| The Eighteenth Century | |
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| California Women, 1769-1848 | |
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| Rancheras and the Land: Women and Property Rights in Hispanic California | |
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| The Nineteenth Century | |
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| Exploration, the Fur Trade, and National Identity, 1807-1845 | |
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| Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man | |
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| Indians, Animals, and the Great Plains, 1800-1850 | |
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| Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from 1800 to 1850 | |
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| The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848 | |
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| Mexican Opinion, American Racism, and the War of 1846 | |
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| The Latter-Day Saints, 1830-1890 | |
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| Mormon "Deliverance" and the Closing of the Frontier | |
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| Indians, the Army, and Settlers, 1864 | |
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| Sand Creek | |
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| Cowboys as Wage Workers, 1880s | |
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| Cowboy Strikes and Unions | |
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| Homesteading, 1880S-1930s | |
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| "Everything I Want Is Here!": The Dakota Farmer's Rural Ideal, 1884-1934 | |
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| The Twentieth Century | |
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| Mexican, "Anglo," and European Miners and Capital, 1900-1915 | |
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| "The Men Have Become Organizers": Labor Conflict and Unionization in the Mexican Mining Communities of Arizona, 1900-1915 | |
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| The Great Depression in the Northwest, 1929-1941 | |
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| Idaho and the Great Depression | |
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| World War II and the Metropolis, 1941-1945 | |
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| The Impact of the Second World War on Los Angeles | |
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| Japanese-American Women and the Internment of 1942-1945 | |
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| Japanese-American Women during World War II | |
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| African Americans in the West, 1541-1993 | |
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| From Esteban to Rodney King: Five Centuries of African American History in the West | |
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| The Pacific Northwest Since 1945 | |
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| Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century | |
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| Index | |