The legacy of conquest
Subtitle: the unbroken past of the American West
By: Patricia Nelson Limerick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: West (U.S.)  -- History; West (U.S.)  -- Historiography
Description: This study corrects the misperceptions of the American West based on representations from novels and films and shows how western history was--and is--a vast economic event.
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [369]-384.