The world of the American West
By: edited by Gordon Morris Bakken.
Contributors: Bakken, Gordon Morris.
Series: The Routledge worlds
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780415989954; 9780203846056
Subjects: Regionalism -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History; West (U.S.) -- Geography; West (U.S.) -- Social conditions
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The physical geography of the West / by Robert Spude; title: The flora and the fauna / by Kurt Russo; title: The Native West before 1700 / by Gregory E. Smoak; title: Hosts and horses : envirocultural effects of contact in the Amerindian West / by K.D. Motes; title: The Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Robert Carriker; title: Continued exploration of the American West : the fur trade, map makers, path markers / by William R. Swagerty; title: The "earlier, wilder image" : early artists of the American West / by Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf; title: The borderlands of the United States West / by Sheila McManus; title: California transformed : organizing a new society, 1848-1869 / by Peter Blodgett; title: The urbanization of the American West : the processes and people in the rise of instant cities and their evolution into the twenty-first century / by Brent Rogers, Jr.; title: The hydraulic West : the history of irrigation / by Charles R. Porter; title: Leisure in the West / by Randal Fulkerson; title: Learning in the West : Western women and the culture of education / by Andrea Radke; title: Defense industries / by Susan Tschabrun; title: The rise of Western women to national stature in the early twentieth century / by Shannon D. Smith; title: American politics move west / by Gordon M. Bakken; title: Government and law in the American West / by Aaron Wilson; title: Region of extremes and contrast / by Alicia Dewey; title: American Indians in the twentieth century / by Lisa E. Emmerich; title: Leadership or dominance : the role of the Western U.S. economy in the world / by Neil Greenwood.