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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
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Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of prope... »
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Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
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Driven Out is a disturbing but detailed look at a sad chapter in American history. The pictures and quotes enliven the chapters and give an acurate account of the early chinese pioneers in our west. It shows the effects of the bizzare sounding laws and the exclusion acts of the 1880s. It gives a particularly intense picture of the plight of chinese wom... »
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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
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Limerick's text is quite simply the most important work in social and intellectual history of the American West of the past several decades. Scholarly yet readable, the appropriately documented text includes historic photographs as well. The final chapter, "The Burdens of Western American History," is commonly and effectively used in college classes ... »
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend
This book takes the time to show Wyatt Earp- warts and all. No effort is made to create a legend out of this pimp and gambler, just facts are revealed. ... »
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