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| Contents | |
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| Defining the West and Its History Statements | |
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| The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1894) and The Problem of the West (1896) | |
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| The Great Plains (1931) | |
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| The Legacy of Conquest (1987) and What on Earth | |
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| Is the New Western History (1991) | |
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| Revisiting the Vanishing Frontier: The Legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner (1987) | |
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| New West, True West: Interpreting the Region's History (1987) | |
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| Essays | |
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| Where Is the American West? | |
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| Report on a Survey | |
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| Spanish Borderlands and Native Homelands | |
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| Documents | |
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| Don Luiacute;s de Velasco's Manifest, 1597 | |
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| Nicolaacute;s de Aguilar's Worldly Goods, 1663 | |
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| The Count of Paredes' Report on the Pueblo Indians' Revolt, 1681 | |
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| Pedro Naranjo's Testimony, 1681 | |
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| Bishop Tamaroacute;n Visits Santa Fe and Taos, 1760 | |
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| Father Juniacute;pero Serra Asks Viceroy Antonio Bucareli for Leniency for the Indians, 1775 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Honor and Marriage in New Mexico | |
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| Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions | |
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| Cultural Contacts and Contracts | |
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| Documents | |
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| on Southern Ute Creation, Recorded 1912 | |
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| Chippewa Contact Narrative, Recorded 1855 | |
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| (Piegan) on the Appearance of Horses, Recorded 1895 | |
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| Francis Chardon on the Destruction of the Arikaras and Mandans by Smallpox, 1837 | |
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| on Life Among the Trappers, and the Trappers' View of Women, 18471849 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Native Women in Canadian Fur Trade Society | |
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| Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy | |
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| Federal Support of Explorers and Emigrants | |
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| Documents | |
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| Meriwether Lewis at the Great Falls of the Missouri, 1805 | |
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| The Stephen Long Expedition's Report of a Frontier Barrier, 1821 | |
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| with the Mounted Riflemen Observes Emigrants on the Overland Trails, 1849 | |
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| Impressions of the Overland Journey from 1849 | |
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| The Overland Trails: Three Tables of Statistics | |
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| Essays | |
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| From the Northwest Passage to the "Great Reconnaissance" | |
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| The Federal Government's Aid to Overland Emigrants | |
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| The Legacy of Acquisition | |
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| Documents | |
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| Mexican General Mariano Arista's Advice to the Soldiers of the U.S. Army, 1846 | |
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| Anastasio Parrode, Commander-in-Chief of the Department of Tamaulipas, to His Troops, 1846 | |
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| Gives a Texan's View of the War with Mexico, 1846 | |
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| on Incorporating Mexico, 1848 | |
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| on Expansion and Mexican Lands, 1848 | |
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| Statement at Her Trial for Treason, 1895 | |
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| From Haunani-Kay Trask, a Native Daughter in Colony Hawai`i, 1993 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Myths of Manifest Destiny | |
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| Hawaii: The First and Last Far West? | |
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| Cowboys, Outlaws, and Violence | |
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| Documents | |
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| The Death of Jesse James, 1882 | |
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| Recalls Rustlers and Vigilantes, 18831884 | |
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| Writes of Her Husband's Murder, 1884 | |
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| Theodore Roosevelt Describes Cowboy-Land, 1893 | |
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| An Arkansas Newspaper on the Killing of Bill Dalton, 1894 | |
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| Essays | |
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| The Cattle Towns Adjust to Violence (with a Postscript) | |
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| Outlaw Gangs and Social Bandits | |
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| Children, Marriage, and Families Photo | |
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| Documents | |
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| Homestead, Custer County, Nebraska, 1887 | |
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| Ira Watson House, Custer County, Nebraska, 1886 | |
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| Stewart Family in Spokane, Washington, 1889 | |
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| Goshen, Utah, Sewing a Flag, c. 1917 | |
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| with Their Children in California, date unknown A Chinese Family in California, date unknown and His Polygamous Family in Utah, c. 1900 | |
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| Chipeta and Her Family in Dragon, Utah, 1907 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Elliott West, Children and the Frontier Paula Petrik, Not a Love Story: Bordeaux v. Bordeaux | |
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| Contested Reforms | |
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| Documents | |
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| Examines Mormon Polygamy, 1860 | |
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| Defends Plural Marriage, 1884 | |
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| "Brigham, Brigham Young," An Anti-Mormon Folk Song, Collected in 1932 | |
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| Testimony of Anti-Chinese Witnesses, 1876 | |
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| Augustus Layres Endorses Chinese Immigrants, 1877 | |
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| A Poetic Expression of the Chinese Perspective, c. 1885 | |
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| Carrie Chapman Catt Encourages Idaho Suffragists, 1896 | |
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| Newspaper Account of Idaho Suffrage Vote, 1896 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Carol Cornwall Madsen, Utah Law and the Plural Wives, 18501900 | |
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| Gender, Protest, and the Anti-Chinese Movement | |
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| Railroad and Mining Labor | |
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| Documents | |
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| on Building the Transcontinental Railroad, 1865 | |
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| Describes the Engineering of the Railroad, 1867 | |
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| Excerpts from the Annals of the Daughters of Charity at Virginia City, Nevada, c. 1875 | |
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| Chinese Accounts of the Killings at Rock Springs, 1885 | |
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| on the Ludlow Massacre, 1914 | |
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| Flynn's IWW Call to Women, 1915 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Northwest Railroad Work Force, 18931912 | |
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| "Old" Radicals and "New" Immigrants in Bingham, Utah, 19051912 | |
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| Living on the Land, Leaving the Land | |
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| Documents | |
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| Northern Ute Allotment, 1903 | |
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| Recall the Early Days of Reservation Farming, 18771900 | |
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| Martin Charlot and the Futility of Flathead-Salish Farming, 18901920 | |
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| Jorgen and Otto Jorgensen Remember the Decision to Homestead in Montana, 1906 | |
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| Advocates Homesteading for Women, 1913 | |
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| The Bell Family Tries Dry Farming, 19111923 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Farming and the Northern Ute Experience | |
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| A Family Farm Chronicle | |
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| Dam Water, Damn Dust | |
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| Documents | |
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| on Reclamation of the Arid Lands, 1878 | |
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| the Conquest of Arid America, 1900 | |
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| The Reclamation Act, 1902 | |
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| Building Hoover Dam, 19291935 | |
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| Letter from the Dust Bowl, 1935 | |
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| The Plow That Broke the Plains: A Synopsis, 1936 | |
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| on Soil Conservation, 1939 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Striking the Rock | |
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| The Black Blizzards Roll In | |
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| The Other Western Homefront | |
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| Documents | |
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| Roger Daniels's Quantitative Note on the Forced Migrations of Japanese Americans, 19421946 | |
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| A Desert Exile, 1942 | |
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| Voices from the Unknown Internment, 1942 | |
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| on the Aleut Evacuation, 1942 | |
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| on Farm Workers from Mexico, 1943 | |
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| on "Reconverting" Mexican Americans, 1946 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Jim Crow in Alaska | |
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| Bracero Laborers in the Pacific Northwest | |
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| New Cities, New Lives Photo | |
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| Documents | |
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| Second Street Cable Railway, Looking West, 1888 | |
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| Construction Site, c. 1910 | |
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| Construction of the Harbor Freeway, 1956 | |
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| Disneyland, 1955 Disneyland, 1967 | |
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| Burning Building in Watts Uprising, 1965 | |
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| A Korean American Stands Guard During the Los Angeles Riots, 1992 | |
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| Dodger Stadium, 1962 | |
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| Essays | |
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| Quintard Taylor, Blacks and Asians in a White City | |
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| The Urban West and the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Owning the West | |
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| Documents | |
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| Report of the Committee on the Conservation and Administration of the Public Domain, 1931 | |
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| Utah Governor George Dern Responds to the Public Lands Debate, 1932 | |
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| Two Reports from Nevada on the Sagebrush Rebellion, 1979 | |
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| Is the Sagebrush Rebellion Dead? 1986 | |
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| West's Rebels Take Fight to the Feds, 1995 | |
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| Four Editorial Cartoons | |
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| Essays | |