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The Story of The West: A History of the American West and Its People. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Frontier. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. West, Elliott. Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2023; Pulitzer Prize finalist. White, Richard.
This category is for articles on history books about the American Old West (i.e. books that focus on the western United States in the second half of the nineteenth century). Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Historical Atlas of the American West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1989). online; Brands, H.W. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West ((Basic Books, 2019) Deutsch, Sarah. Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders 1898–1940. (U of Nebraska Press, 2022). Deverell, William, ed.
The Old West is a series of books about the history of the American Old West era, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic specific for the era, such as cowboys , American Indians , gamblers and gunfighters .
The project for the Great Books of the Western World began at the University of Chicago, where the president, Robert Hutchins, worked with Mortimer Adler to develop there a course of a type originated by John Erskine at Columbia University in 1921, with the innovation of a "round table" approach to reading and discussing great books among professors and undergraduates.
Western fiction is a genre of literature set in the American Old West frontier and typically set from the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. [1] Well-known writers of Western fiction include Zane Grey from the early 20th century and Louis L'Amour from the mid-20th century.
It was written by John A. Hawgood, a professor of history at the University of Birmingham in England, whose speciality was the history of the American west. [1] The book was first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1967. America's Western Frontiers won the Western History Association's Alfred A. Knopf Western History Prize for this book in 1966.
History books about the American Old West (1 C, 29 P) O. Works about outlaws of the American Old West (5 C, 2 P) W. Western (genre) (15 C, 4 P)
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