The West : an illustrated history / narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film script by Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan ; with a preface by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns ; and contributions by Dayton Duncan ... [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references (p. 435) and index.
Contents
Preface / by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns -- Northern mystery : other wests / by Richard White -- Most avid nation : the mission at Waiilatpu : a meeting place for western women / by Julie Roy Jeffrey -- Seeing the elephant : myth and myopia : Hispanic peoples and western history / by David G. Gutiierrez -- Hell of a storm : believing in the American West / by Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Grandest enterprise under God : great migrations : the pioneer in the American West / by John Mack Faragher -- Rivers run backward : wilderness and the West / by T. H. Watkins -- Great die-up : the American West and the burden of belief / by N. Scott Momaday -- Outcome of our earnest endeavors : Monument Valley / by Dayton Duncan.
Summary
Focuses chiefly on the 19th century which is the period that defined the American West in popular imagination.
