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Essays and illustrations explore the image of the frontier, examining Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill's accounts of westward expansion and h...
Legacies and Reckonings in the New West
Limerick (history, U. of Colorado-Boulder) expands on the themes she broached in The Legacy of Conquest (1987) of the "beleaguered great white men" hi...
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the...
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The City, the West and Water
Tracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nati...
An Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994 - January 7, 1995
Encounters with the American Deserts
Traces the development of American attitudes toward the desert using case studies from many writers over the years....
Photographs of the Southwest
Photographs document how the region has changed, and look at the impact of people on the environment...
Sites of Indian Massacres, Battlefields, and Treaties
In 1987, Drex Brooks began photographing sites that had been important in the history of white/Native American relations, places such as treaty sites ...