num_pages: 396
description: "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today. 28 illustrations
language: English
title: The legacy of conquest: The unbroken past of the American West
titlecomplete: The legacy of conquest: The unbroken past of the American West
genres: College, History, American History, Research, Grad School, Environment, Westerns, 19th Century, American, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1083
publisher: Norton