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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Where the West Is and Why People Have Gone There | |
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| The Mysterious West | |
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| The Five Motivators of Migration into the West | |
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| Where Did the Buffalo Roam, Anyway? | |
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| Plains to the Pacific or Just Dodge City to the Sierras? | |
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| The Agrarian Dream vs. the Old/Golden West | |
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| From Time Immemorial to 1848 | |
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| Arrowheads, Large Animals, and Cliff Dwellings | |
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| Cortes, Onate, and New Spain | |
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| Spanish California and Its Missions | |
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| The Also-Ran Empires: France, Russia, and Britain | |
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| America's Empire for Liberty | |
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| The United States Captures Its West, 1848-1889 | |
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| The Gold Rush Flood | |
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| The Gold Rush as Melting Pot | |
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| The Settlement Frontier: Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota Territory | |
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| Abilenes and Tombstones: Cattle Drives and Cattle Towns | |
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| The New Northwest | |
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| Creating the Mormon Culture Area | |
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| California Latifundia | |
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| The Future and It Worked: Creating Pasadena and Los Angeles | |
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| The West as an Urban Frontier | |
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| Defying the Depression, 1889-1901 | |
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| Depression, Frontier Persistence, and the New West | |
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| Indian Territory Becomes Oklahoma | |
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| The Nadir Period for Indian Population | |
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| The Farm Depression: Irrigation as Salvation | |
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| Riding the Railroads--and the Rails | |
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| Whistle-Stops: The Great Plains | |
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| The Great Basin | |
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| The Pacific West | |
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| State Making and the Offshore West | |
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| The Golden Twilight of the Settlement Frontier, 1901-1913 | |
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| Homesteading's True Heyday | |
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| Wheat Country, from Texas North | |
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| Dakota the Multicultural | |
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| Down the Front Range | |
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| Homesteading amid the Mountains | |
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| Mining as an Industry, Miners as Communities | |
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| The Ethnic West | |
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| Issei and Nisei | |
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| The West in 1913 | |
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| Tourists, Honyockers, Mexicans, and More, 1914-1929 | |
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| World War I and the 1920s | |
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| The Tourist Vanguard: The West Becomes Terra Cognita | |
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| Honyockers' Hell | |
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| Defeat and Retreat: Case Studies | |
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| The Oil Patches | |
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| The Entrada of the Mexicans | |
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| The Mexican Revolution | |
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| Mexicans' Destinations | |
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| The Pot Thickens: Europeans, Blacks, and Asians | |
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| Los Angeles and the Metropolitan West | |
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| Dust Bowl and Depression, 1929-1941 | |
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| A Pause between Two Americas | |
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| The Urban West in the Depression | |
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| The Demographic Baseline | |
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| The Mexican Repatriations | |
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| Asians, Europeans, and the Nativist Laws | |
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| Out of the Dust Bowl, Off the Farms | |
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| Did the New Deal Affect Western Population? | |
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| The War, the Baby Boom, and Slouching toward Watts, 1941-1965 | |
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| The War Stimulus | |
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| "Relocating" the Japanese-Americans | |
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| The Great Exodus Heads West | |
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| The Baby Boom | |
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| Freeways and California Dreams, 1945-1960 | |
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| The Minority Mosaic in Southern California | |
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| The Postwar West: A Brief Tour | |
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| Anglos and Braceros on the Plains | |
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| Slouching toward Watts, 1960-1965 | |
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| "Where It All Starts," 1965-1987 | |
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| The Collapse of the Baby Boom | |
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| The Immigrants' Return: The Act of 1965 | |
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| Alternatives and Countercultures | |
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| The 1973 Oil Crisis, Slow Growth, and Environmental Demography | |
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| Metropolises and Leading Edges | |
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| Purple Mountains and Fruited Plains: The Interior West | |
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| The Leading Edge, 1987-1998 | |
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| Trends Probable and Trends Problematic | |
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| Immigration "Reform and Control," 1986 | |
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| The Fall and Rise of California | |
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| Last Tour of the Century | |
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| Some Postmillennial Projections | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |