Thomas Jefferson and the changing West
Subtitle: from conquest to conservation
By: edited and with an introduction by James P. Ronda.
Contributors: Ronda, James P., 1943-; Missouri Historical Society.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press; Missouri Historical Society Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albuquerque; St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 -- Congresses.; West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848 -- Congresses.; United States -- Territorial expansion -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a 1994 conference organized by the Missouri Historical Society.
Table of contents: value: Imagining the West : the view from Monticello / John Logan Allen; value: "The obtaining lands" : Thomas Jefferson and the Native Americans / Anthony F.C. Wallace; value: Thomas Jefferson : indigenous American storyteller / Robert A. Williams, Jr.; value: Reinventing place : community and conflict in a changing West / Robert Gottlieb; value: An "empire of liberty" : Thomas Jefferson and governing natural resources in the West / Helen M. Ingram and Mary G. Wallace; value: Thomas Jefferson, Missouri, and the "empire for liberty" / Peter S. Onuf; value: Great dreams, great plains : Jefferson, the Bents, and the West / Elliott West; value: The exhausted West : a last look at landscape / Mary Clearman Blew; value: "It's really a lot more complicated than that" : final thoughts about Thomas Jefferson and the changing West / Patricia Nelson Limerick.