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Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2003].
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xxiv, 542 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2003].
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Book - Regular Print
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-542).
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books | 978 SCH | Find It Now |
| Tri-City College Prep High School - REF - Reference Collection | 978 SCH | Find It Now |
Table of Contents
Part I From Prehistory to Early European Explorations (?-ca. 1700) 5 --
Acoma 10 --
adobe 10 --
Alarcon, Hernando de 11 --
Alvarado Expedition 11 --
Anasazi 12 --
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez 13 --
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez 15 --
Canyon de Chelly 16 --
Cardenas, Garcia Lopez de 16 --
Cartier, Jacques 17 --
Chaco Canyon 17 --
Champlain, Samuel de 17 --
chili peppers 18 --
Columbus, Christopher 18 --
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de 21 --
Cortes, Hernan 22 --
de Benavides, Fray Alonso 23 --
de Niza, Fray Marcos 23 --
de Soto, Hernando 24 --
Diaz, Melchior 24 --
Drake, Francis 25 --
El Morro/Inscription Rock 26 --
El Paso del Norte 27 --
Espejo, Antonio 27 --
Esteban 27 --
Ferrelo, Bartolome 28 --
Folsom Point 29 --
Fox Indians 29 --
Grand Canyon 30 --
Hopi Indians 30 --
horses 31 --
Hudson's Bay Company 33 --
Iroquois 35 --
Kennewick Man 37 --
King Philip's War 37 --
kiva 38 --
Las Casas, Bartolome de 38 --
Marquette and Jolliet Expedition 39 --
mestizos and mulattos 41 --
missionaries (Franciscans and Jesuits) 42 --
Mississippi River 46 --
Missouri River 47 --
Monument Valley 48 --
Mourning/Beaver Wars, 1608-1701 49 --
Navajo 50 --
New France Exploration, 1524-1763 51 --
New Netherlands 54 --
Onate, Juan de 55 --
Pays d'en Haut/Middle Ground 57 --
Pope 58 --
Pueblo Bonito 59 --
Radisson, Pierre-Esprit 59 --
repartimiento 60 --
Rio Grande 60 --
San Gabriel 61 --
Santa Fe 61 --
smallpox 62 --
St. Augustine 63 --
Straits of Anian 63 --
Treaty of Tordesillas 63 --
Tucson 64 --
Vargas, Diego de 64 --
Vizcaino, Sebastian 65 --
Yaquis 66 --
Part II From La Salle's Expeditions to the Louisiana Purchase (1682-1803) 67 --
Baranov, Aleksander 72 --
Beaubien, Charles ("Black Snake") 72 --
Bering, Vitus 72 --
Blue Jacket 73 --
Boone, Daniel 73 --
Bourgmont, Etienne Veniard de 74 --
Braddock, Edward 75 --
Brant, Joseph 76 --
Carver, Jonathan 76 --
Charbonneau, Touissant 77 --
Chouteau, Auguste 77 --
Clark, George Rogers 78 --
Cresap, Michael 79 --
de la Balme, August 79 --
de Linctot, Daniel-Maurice Godefroy 80 --
French and Indian War (Seven Years War) 81 --
fur trapping/fur trade 83 --
Handsome Lake 85 --
headright 86 --
Hennepin, Louis 86 --
Hiawatha 87 --
Huronia 87 --
Kenton, Simon 87 --
Kentucky long rifle 88 --
Kino, Father Eusebio Francisco 88 --
La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier de 89 --
Long Portage/Kekionga 90 --
Lord Dunmore's War 92 --
Louisiana Purchase 93 --
MacKenzie, Alexander 95 --
Maisonville, Alexis and Francis 96 --
Mallet, Pierre and Paul 96 --
McKee, Alexander 96 --
Miami 97 --
Miami-Federalist War, 1790-1795 99 --
Michilimackinac 101 --
moccasins 102 --
Neolin 102 --
Northwest Ordinance 103 --
Old Briton 106 --
Pacanne 107 --
Pontiac's Rebellion 108 --
Potawatomi 110 --
Proclamation Line of 1763 110 --
Provincias Internas 111 --
Roman Catholic Missions 111 --
San Antonio 113 --
Sequoyah 114 --
Shawnee 115 --
Sieur d'Iberville 116 --
South Pass 116 --
St. Clair, Arthur 116 --
St. Denis, Louis Juchereau de 118 --
Tabeau, Pierre-Antoine 118 --
Taucumwah 119 --
Tonti, Henry de 120 --
Treaty of Fort Finney, 1786 120 --
Treaty of Fort Stanwix (First and Second Treaties) 120 --
Treaty of Greenville 121 --
Treaty of Vincennes 121 --
Truteau, Jean Baptiste 122 --
Vial, Pedro 122 --
Villasur Expedition 122 --
Wabash River 123 --
Part III From Lewis and Clark to the Pony Express (1803-1861) 124 --
American Fur Company 130 --
Arikaras 131 --
Ashley, William H. 131 --
Astor, John Jacob 132 --
Austin, Moses 133 --
Austin, Stephen Fuller 134 --
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 135 --
Battle of Tippecanoe 136 --
Becknell, William 137 --
Beckwourth, Jim 137 --
Benton, Thomas Hart 138 --
Black Hawk 139 --
Black Hawk War 139 --
Blackfoot 140 --
Boonesborough 140 --
Border Ruffians/"pukes" 141 --
Bowie knife 141 --
branding 142 --
Bridger, James ("Jim") 142 --
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) 143 --
Butterfield Overland Mail 145 --
California Gold Rush 146 --
Carson, Christopher Houston ("Kit") 147 --
Catlin, George 148 --
Cherokee Indians 148 --
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia/Worcester v. State of Georgia 150 --
Clay, Henry 151 --
Colt handguns 153 --
Colter, John 153 --
Comstock Lode 154 --
Conestoga wagon 154 --
Cooper, James Fenimore 156 --
Creek ("Red Stick") War 158 --
Crockett, David ("Davy") 158 --
Crows 159 --
Donner Party 160 --
Douglas, Stephen Arnold 160 --
Dred Scott decision 162 --
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 164 --
Fort Dearborn Massacre 164 --
Forty-Niners 165 --
"Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men" 165 --
Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton 166 --
Fremont, John Charles 166 --
Goliad Massacre 169 --
Gregg, Josiah 170 --
Harrison, William Henry 170 --
Houston, Sam 172 --
Indian Removal Act of 1830 173 --
Jackson, Andrew 174 --
Jayhawkers 176 --
Jefferson, Thomas 177 --
Kansas-Nebraska Act 180 --
Kearny, Stephen Watts 181 --
Larkin, Thomas Oliver 182 --
Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of ("LDS" or "Mormons") 183 --
Lee, Jason 190 --
Lewis and Clark Expedition 190 --
Mangas Coloradas 193 --
Manifest Destiny 193 --
Marcy, Randolph 195 --
McKenney, Thomas Loraine 195 --
Mexican War 196 --
Missouri Compromise 199 --
mountain men 201 --
mustangs 201 --
National Road 202 --
Oregon Trail 203 --
Osage Indians 204 --
Panic of 1837 204 --
Panic of 1857 205 --
Parker, Cynthia Ann 205 --
Parkman, Francis 206 --
Pawnee Indians 207 --
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery 208 --
placer (gold) mining 209 --
plow 209 --
Pony Express 210 --
"popular sovereignty" 211 --
Pottawatomie Massacre 212 --
preemption and squatter's rights 213 --
Quaker missions 213 --
Richardville, Jean Baptiste 214 --
Ross, John 216 --
Sacagawea 217 --
Salt Lake City, Utah 217 --
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de 217 --
Santa Fe Trail 218 --
Shoshone Indians 220 --
Smith, Jedediah 221 --
Spalding, Henry 222 --
Spencer Repeating Rifle 224 --
spurs 224 --
stagecoaches 224 --
steamboats 225 --
Sutter, John Augustus 226 --
Tecumseh 227 --
Tenskwatawa 229 --
Texas Rangers 231 --
Texas Revolution 232 --
Trail of Tears 233 --
Travis, William Barret 234 --
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 236 --
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 237 --
Vanderbilt, Cornelius 238 --
Walker, Joseph R. 239 --
War of 1812 239 --
western art before the Civil War 242 --
western music before the Civil War 242 --
Whitman mission 243 --
Young, Brigham 244 --
Part IV From the Civil War to the Closing of the Frontier (1861-1893) 246 --
Bancroft, Hubert Howe 250 --
barbed wire 250 --
Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 251 --
Battle of the Washita, 1868 255 --
Bean, Roy 256 --
Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty or William H. Bonney) 257 --
Black Hills 257 --
Black Kettle 258 --
Bland, Richard P. 258 --
Bosque Redondo 259 --
Bozeman Trail 260 --
buffalo (bison) 260 --
Buffalo Soldiers 262 --
Buntline, Ned (Edward Zane Carrol Judson) 262 --
Calamity Jane (Martha Cannary) 263 --
Cassidy, Butch (Robert LeRoy Parker) 263 --
cattle drives 264 --
cattle towns 265 --
chaps 266 --
Cheyennes 267 --
Chief Joseph 268 --
Chinese Exclusion Act 269 --
Chivington, John M. 270 --
Civil War 270 --
Cochise 274 --
Code of the West 275 --
Cody, William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") 276 --
Comanche Indians 278 --
cotton industry/cotton production 280 --
cowboy poetry 281 --
cowboys 281 --
Crazy Horse 287 --
"Crime of '73" 288 --
Crook, George 289 --
Custer, George Armstrong 290 --
Dalton Gang 292 --
Daly, Marcus 293 --
Dart, Isom (Ned Huddleston) 293 --
Daughters of the Republic of Texas 293 --
Deadwood Dick (Nat Love) 294 --
dime novels 295 --
Dodge City 295 --
Earp, Wyatt Berry Stapp 296 --
Exodusters 297 --
Fetterman Massacre 298 --
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham 299 --
Friends of the Indian 300 --
Garrett, Pat 300 --
Geronimo 301 --
Ghost Dance 302 --
ghost towns 303 --
Great Northern Railroad 304 --
Great Sioux War, 1876-1877 304 --
Greeley, Horace 305 --
Hardin, John Wesley 306 --
Hickok, James Butler ("Wild Bill") 307 --
Holliday, John Henry ("Doc") 307 --
Homestead Act 308 --
Howard, Oliver Otis 310 --
Huntington, Collis Potter 310 --
Indian Wars and reservation policy, 1864-1890 311 --
irrigation 312 --
Jackson, Helen Hunt (Helen Maria Fiske) 313 --
James, Jesse 314 --
Johnson County War 314 --
Kiowa Indians 315 --
Land Grant College Act of 1862 (Morrill Act) 317 --
Lillie, Gordon William ("Pawnee Bill") 318 --
Loving, Oliver 318 --
Masterson, Bartholemew ("Bat") (later, William Barclay) 319 --
Miles, Nelson Appleton 320 --
Minnesota Sioux Uprising of 1862 321 --
Modoc War 321 --
Moffat, David Halliday, Jr. 322 --
Moran, Thomas 322 --
Muir, John 323 --
National Bank and Currency Acts 323 --
Navajo Long Walk 324 --
Nez Perce Indians 324 --
Nez Perce War 326 --
Nicodemus, Kansas 327 --
Northern Pacific Railroad 327 --
O.K. Corral 327 --
Oakley, Annie (Phoebe Ann Moses) 329 --
Opening of the Oklahoma Territory 330 --
O'Sullivan, Timothy H. 334 --
Parker, Ely S. 334 --
Parker, Quannah 335 --
Pinkerton, Allan 335 --
polygamy 336 --
Populist Party/Populism 337 --
prostitution 339 --
Quantrill, William Clarke 340 --
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-Luta) 341 --
Red River War, 1874-1875 341 --
Reno, Marcus A. 342 --
Ringo, John Peters 343 --
rodeos 343 --
Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 345 --
Sheridan, Philip Henry 346 --
Sherman Silver Purchase Act 347 --
Sherman, William Tecumseh 348 --
Sioux Indians 348 --
Sitting Bull 351 --
Southern Pacific Railroad 353 --
Stanford, Leland 353 --
Starr, Belle (Myra Belle Shirley) 354 --
Stetson hats 354 --
Strauss, Levi ("Loeb") 355 --
Stuart, Granville 355 --
Swift, Gustavus 355 --
Tabor, Elizabeth ("Baby Doe") 356 --
telegraph 357 --
Tilghman, William Matthew ("Bill"), Jr. 357 --
Tombstone, Arizona 357 --
transcontinental railroads 358 --
Union Pacific Railroad 360 --
United States Cavalry 362 --
Wells Fargo & Company 363 --
Winchester rifles 363 --
Wounded Knee Massacre 364 --
Yellowstone National Park 365 --
Part V Modern Era (1893-The Present) 366 --
Adams, Ansel 374 --
aerospace industry in the West 374 --
air conditioning 376 --
Alamogordo (Trinity Atomic Bomb Test) 377 --
Alcatraz 377 --
Amazon.com 378 --
Apple Computers 378 --
Area 51/Groom Lake 378 --
Ash, Mary Kay 379 --
Astrodome 380 --
Autry, (Orvon) Gene 380 --
Azusa Street revival 381 --
Bakersfield Sound 381 --
Bank of America (BankAmerica) 382 --
Baum, L. Frank 383 --
Beach Boys 384 --
Beats 385 --
Berkeley "Free Speech" Movement 386 --
Black Elk 386 --
Borah, William E. 387 --
bracero program 387 --
Branson, Missouri 388 --
Brown, Molly 388 --
Bryan, William Jennings 388 --
Bureau of Land Management 391 --
Bush, George Herbert Walker 392 --
Bush, George W. 393 --
California fitness/aerobic craze 395 --
Cash, Johnny 395 --
Cather, Willa 396 --
Chavez, Cesar Estrada 398 --
Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD) 400 --
Chicanos 400 --
chili cookoffs 402 --
Chinatowns 403 --
Church, Frank 404 --
Colorado River Community Compact 404 --
commercial fishing in the West 405 --
"concealed carry" laws 405 --
credit cards 406 --
Crystal Cathedral 406 --
Curtis, Charles 407 --
Dallas Cowboys 408 --
dam movement of the 20th century 408 --
de Voto, Bernard 409 --
Debo, Angie 410 --
Denver, John 410 --
Disneyland 410 --
Dobie, J. Frank 411 --
Doors 411 --
Douglas Aircraft Company 412 --
Dubois, Fred T. 412 --
dude ranches 413 --
Dust Bowl 414 --
Eastwood, Clinton ("Clint") 414 --
Eccles, Marriner Stoddard 415 --
Edwards Air Force Base 417 --
El Teatro Campesino 417 --
endangered species/"takings" clauses 417 --
FaithDome 418 --
Fall, Albert B. 418 --
"fern bars" 419 --
Ford, John 419 --
Giannini, Amadeo Peter ("A. P.") 420 --
Golden Gate Bridge 422 --
Goldwater, Barry Morris 423 --
Grey, Zane 425 --
Haggard, Merle 426 --
Harvey Girls 426 --
Hawaii 426 --
Hayden, Carl T. 428 --
Hayes, Ira 428 --
Haywood, William Dudley ("Big Bill") 428 --
Hillerman, Tony 429 --
Hollywood 429 --
Hoover Dam 430 --
Hoover, Herbert Clark 431 --
Hughes, Howard Robard 431 --
illegal immigration 432 --
Indian alcoholism 433 --
Indian Reorganization Act 434 --
Japanese internment in World War II 436 --
Johnson, Hiram 437 --
Johnson, Lyndon Baines 438 --
Jordan, Barbara Charlene 440 --
Kaiser, Henry J. 440 --
L'Amour, Louis 441 --
Lange, Dorothea 442 --
Las Vegas 442 --
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 443 --
Lockheed Aircraft Company 444 --
London, Jack Griffith 445 --
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 1903 445 --
Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory 446 --
Los Angeles Dodgers/western sports expansion 447 --
Lubbock and the sound of west Texas 447 --
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center 448 --
MacDonald, Peter 448 --
Mankiller, Wilma 448 --
McMurtry, Larry 449 --
McPherson, Aimee Semple 449 --
Means, Russell 450 --
Microsoft 450 --
military base closures in the West 452 --
Mix, Tom 452 --
Monterey International Pop Festival 453 --
Mount Rushmore 453 --
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 454 --
National Cowboy Hall of Fame 454 --
National Rifle Association (NRA) 454 --
Native American Church 456 --
Navajo code talkers 457 --
New Age movement in the West 458 --
Newlands Reclamation Act 458 --
Nixon, Richard Milhous 459 --
Non-Partisan League 461 --
O. J. Simpson trial 462 --
O'Connor, Sandra Day 463 --
O'Keeffe, Georgia 463 --
Oklahoma City bombing 463 --
Osage oil 464 --
Osmonds (Donny and Marie) 464 --
Owens Valley incident 465 --
Parker, Fess 465 --
Perot, H. Ross 466 --
petroleum (oil) industry in the West 467 --
peyote (mescaline) 470 --
Pinchot, Gifford 470 --
Proposition 13 471 --
RAND Corporation 471 --
Rankin, Jeanette Pickering 472 --
Ray, Dixie Lee 472 --
Rayburn, Samuel ("Sam") Taliaferro 473 --
Reagan, Ronald Wilson 473 --
Remington, Frederic 477 --
Roberts, Monty 479 --
Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots of 1992 479 --
Rogers, Roy 480 --
Rogers, William Penn Adair ("Will") 480 --
Roosevelt, Theodore 481 --
Rose Bowl 483 --
Roswell crash and UFOs 483 --
Russell, Charles Marion 484 --
Salamander Letter 485 --
Sandia 485 --
Schroeder, Patricia Scott 486 --
Seattle "grunge" sound 486 --
Seattle Space Needle 487 --
Second Wounded Knee 487 --
Selena (Selena Quintanilla) 488 --
Silicon Valley 488 --
skiing 489 --
Spindletop 491 --
Stagecoach, the movie 492 --
Starbucks Coffee 492 --
Stegner, Wallace 492 --
Sundance Institute 493 --
surf music 493 --
surfing 494 --
Tan, Amy 495 --
Teapot Dome scandal 495 --
Texaco 495 --
Texas Instruments 496 --
Thorpe, James Francis ("Jim") 497 --
tourism development in the West 498 --
Turner, Frederick Jackson 499 --
United Farm Workers 501 --
United States Air Force Academy 502 --
Villa, Pancho 502 --
Waco and the Branch Davidians 503 --
Walton, Sam 504 --
Warner Brothers 505 --
Watts riots 505 --
Wayne, John 506 --
Webb, Walter Prescott 508 --
"western" movies 509 --
"Western" on television 511 --
western swing dancing 513 --
Wheeler, Burton Kendall 513 --
Williams, Hank 514 --
Wister, Owen 514 --
Women's Professional Rodeo Association 515 --
World War II in the West 516 --
Zoot suit riots 518.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Schweikart, L., & Birzer, B. J. (2003). The American West . John Wiley & Sons.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schweikart, Larry and Bradley J. Birzer. 2003. The American West. John Wiley & Sons.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schweikart, Larry and Bradley J. Birzer. The American West John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Schweikart, Larry., and Bradley J. Birzer. The American West John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
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