The American West: A Twentieth-century History (Twentieth-Century American West) - Softcover

Malone, Michael P.; Etulain, Richard W.

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9780803281677: The American West: A Twentieth-century History (Twentieth-Century American West)

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ISBN 10: 0803281676 ISBN 13: 9780803281677

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1989

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The mystique of the Wild West perpetuated by Buffalo Bill, Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, John Wayne, and the Marlboro Man has hindered the serious study of the real region west of the ninety-eighth meridian. Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain move beyond myth and beyond the influential frontier thesis advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner to write about the American West as it has actually developed in the twentieth century. In vivid detail they describe a region too richly varied and dynamic to be contained by the imagination. Extending into the 1980s, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History is the first comprehensive survey of the modern West to appear in many years. Malone and Etulain discuss economic, political, social, and cultural developments in the West from the turn of the century to the onset of the Great Depression, when the region was still in a colonial relationship to the urban, industrial Northeast and upper Midwest; from 1930 to the end of World War II, when the West was transformed by New Deal programs and by even greater federal spending in military installations; and from 1945 to the present, when the West experienced rapid changes in demographics and a series of trendsetting lifestyles. Unique to this history are chapters about the rich cultural heritage of the modern West and about the lives of men, women, and children of various ethnic groups. Detailed bibliographical essays are included. Michael P. Malone, a professor of history at Montana State University, is the author of many books and the editor of Historians and the American West, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1983. Richard W. Etulain, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is the editor of A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 1982) and other publications.

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"[Chevato's story is well known, but not until now has much information been available on 'the rest of the story'--the Indian who kidnapped Lehmann. . . . Fascinating reading."--Mike Cox, "Austin American-Statesman"--Mike Cox"Austin American-Statesman" (12/23/2007)

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'Richard Etulain and Michael Malone are to be congratulated for giving us the first general history of the American West in the twentieth century. Here one can find fascinating accounts of the West's major industries whether it be copper mining, oil, aerospace industries, or Silicon Valley. The region's many ethnic groups, urbanization, the impact of federal policies, the local responses are all covered here along with a myriad of other subjects' - Howard R. Lamar, Yale University. 'Exceedingly well written and comprehensive, The American West: A Twentieth-Century History should become the standard work on the subject' - Richard Lowitt, author of "The New Deal and the West".The mystique of the Wild West perpetuated by Buffalo Bill, Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour, John Wayne, and the Marlboro Man has hindered the serious study of the real region west of the ninety-eighth meridian. Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain move beyond myth and beyond the influential frontier thesis advanced by Frederick Jackson Turner to write about the American West as it has actually developed in the twentieth century.

In vivid detail they describe a region too richly varied and dynamic to be contained by the imagination. Extending into the 1980s, "The American West: A Twentieth-Century History" is the first comprehensive survey of the modern West to appear in many years.Malone and Etulain discuss economic, political, social, and cultural developments in the West from the turn of the century to the onset of the Great Depression, when the region was still in a colonial relationship to the urban, industrial Northeast and upper Midwest; from 1930 to the end of World War II, when the West was transformed by New Deal programs and by even greater federal spending in military installations; and from 1945 to the present, when the West experienced rapid changes in demographics and a series of trendsetting lifestyles.Unique to this history are chapters about the rich cultural heritage of the modern West and about the lives of men, women, and children of various ethnic groups. Detailed bibliographical essays are included. Michael P.Malone, a professor of history at Montana State University, is the author of many books and the editor of Historians and the American West, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1983.

Richard W. Etulain, a professor of history at the University of New Mexico, is the editor of "A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature" (University of Nebraska Press, 1982) and other publications.

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