The ten original essays commissioned for this book focus on historical subjects in the post-World War II American West. The late Gerald Nash, in whose honor the

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of “land” and “the West” have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy. The essay

Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion

Chronicles the history of the American West during the twentieth century, tracing economical, political, social, and cultural developments in the region from 19

In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, an