A Companion to the American West [Paperback]

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• Covers the culture, politics, and environment of the American West through periods of migration, settlement, and modernization
  
• Discusses Native Americans and their conflicts and integration with American settlers

Notes on Contributors viii

Introduction 1
William Deverell

Part I Thinking Through the American West

1 The Making of the First American West and the Unmaking of Other Realms 5
Stephen Aron

2 Thinking West 25
Elliott West

Part II Conquest and Its Patterns: The Nineteenth Century

3 Passion and Imagination in the Exploration of the American West 53
James P. Ronda

4 Environment and the Nineteenth-Century West: Or, Process Encounters Place 77
Andrew C. Isenberg

5 Engineering the Elephant: Industrialism and the Environment in the Greater West 93
David Igler

6 Mining and the Nineteenth-Century American West 112
Malcolm J. Rohrbough

7 Law and the Contact of Cultures 130
Sarah Barringer Gordon

8 Native Americans in the Nineteenth-Century American West 143
David Rich Lewis

9 Western Violence 162
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