"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"
Subtitle: A History of the American West
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Norman, Oklahoma, USA
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 644
Table of contents: title: Figures
pagenum: ix; title: Maps
pagenum: xiii; title: Tables
pagenum: xv; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xvii; label: One
pagenum: 1
title: The Origins of the West; label: 1
pagenum: 5
title: The Seeds of the West; label: 2
pagenum: 27
title: Empires and Indians; label: Two
pagenum: 55
title: The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West; label: 3
pagenum: 61
title: The Conquest of the West; label: 4
pagenum: 85
title: The Federal Government and the Indians; label: 5
pagenum: 119
title: Exploring the Land; label: 6
pagenum: 137
title: Distributing the Land; label: 7
pagenum: 155
title: Territorial Government; label: Three
pagenum: 179
title: Transformation and Development; label: 8
pagenum: 183
title: Te Transformation of Western Society: Migration; label: 9
pagenum: 212
title: Transforming the Land; label: 10
pagenum: 236
title: The West and the World Economy; label: 11
pagenum: 270
title: The Economic Structure of the West; label: 12
pagenum: 298
title: New Communities and the Western Social Order; label: 13
pagenum: 328
title: Social Conflict; label: 14
pagenum: 353
title: Western Politics; label: Four
pagenum: 389
title: The Bureaucratic Revolution in the West; label: 15
pagenum: 395
title: At the Centers of Power; label: 16
pagenum: 431
title: On the Peripheries of Power; label: Five
pagenum: 459
title: Transforming the West; label: 17
pagenum: 463
title: The Depression; label: 18
pagenum: 496
title: World War II and Its Aftermath: Reshaping the West; label: Six
pagenum: 535
title: The Modern West; label: 19
pagenum: 541
title: Rise of the Metropolitan West; label: 20
pagenum: 574
title: The West and the Nation; label: 21
pagenum: 613
title: The Imagined West; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 633; title: Index
pagenum: 636