The American Far West in the twentieth century [electronic resource] / Earl Pomeroy ; edited by Richard W. Etulain ; foreword by Howard R. Lamar.
In this richly insightful survey that represents the culmination of decades of research, a leading western specialist argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year 1900, as is commonly assumed, but was shaped as much-if not more-by events and innovations in the twentiet...
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Table of Contents:
- The West in 1901
- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers
- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales
- New forms of economic growth
- Economic growth from the 1940s
- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities
- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War
- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases
- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation
- Western politics
- Expanding electorates
- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.