Western lives
Subtitle: a biographical history of the American West
By: edited by Richard W. Etulain.
Contributors: Etulain, Richard W.; University of New Mexico. Center for the Southwest.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- Biography.; West (U.S.) -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The history of the American West is full of life stories, and the fifteen essays in this collection weave a selection of those lives together to focus on the main currents in the region's history. The first five essays cover the period from contact to the mid-nineteenth century and feature Indian leaders and Spanish colonizers, characters from the Mexican period, explorers, mountain men, and missionaries." "The second group of essays reflects on Mormons, miners, California Hispanics, American Indians, ranchers, farmers, and the Wild West of Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley. The essays on the twentieth-century West examine the careers of James J. Hill, John Muir, Jeannette Rankin, Aimee Semple McPherson, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Walt Disney, Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan, Microsoft's Paul Allen, and the mythical figure of Rosie the Riveter."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published in cooperation with the University of New Mexico Center for the Southwest."
Table of contents: title: Wakantapi and Juan Sabeata : Indian leadership and early European invasion in the new West / Gary Clayton Anderson; title: Juan Bautista de Anza : father and son; title: pillars of New Spain's far north / John L. Kessell; title: Stephen F. Austin and Doña Tules : a land agent and a gambler in the Mexican borderlands / Cheryl J. Foote; title: George Vancouver, Lewis and Clark, and David Thompson : exploring the Pacific Northwest by tide and trail / William L. Lang; title: Jedediah S. Smith and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman : mountain men and missionaries in the far West / Barton H. Barbour; title: Sam Brannan and Elizabeth Byers : Mormons and miners at midcentury / Anne F. Hyde; title: Mariano Vallejo and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton : cultural conflicts and compromises in the late-nineteenth-century West / Richard Griswold Del Castillo; title: Sarah Winnemucca, Chief Joseph, and native America's dilemma / Elliott West; title: Miller and Lux, Rachael Calof, Nannie Alderson, and the settlement of the agricultural frontier / R. Douglas Hurt; title: "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley : romancing the West / Glenda Riley; title: James J. Hill, Jeannette Rankin, and John Muir : the American West in the Progressive Era, 1890 to 1920 / Mark Harvey; title: Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and the interwar West, 1920 to 1940 / Katherine G. Aiken; title: Rosie the Riveter, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the American West transformed / Jon Hunner; title: Walt Disney, César Chávez, Barbara Jordan, and the evolution of the West's identity, 1945 to 1980 / Mark S. Foster; title: Paul Allen : high technology and the high country in a New West / Carl Abbott; title: The American West : a bibliographical essay / Richard W. Etulain.