Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-384) and index.
Summary
This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.
Contents
Part One: THE CONQUERORS -- Empire of Innocence -- Property Values -- Denial and Dependence -- Uncertain Enterprises -- The Meeting Ground of Past and Present -- Part two: THE CONQUERORS MEET THEIR MATCH -- The Persistence of Natives -- America the Borderland -- Racialism on the Run -- Mankind the Manager -- The Burdens of Western American History.
