The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to ColoradoUniversity Press of Kansas, 1998 - 422 strani Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West creates a tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term, either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical judgment, but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world. He shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions. |
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A Scrap and a Panic | 1 |
The Old World | 17 |
Frontiers and Visions | 33 |
The Called Out People | 63 |
The Gold | 97 |
The Gathering | 115 |
The Rush | 145 |
Path of Empire | 173 |
The People of the Centre | 237 |
History Through Nomads Eyes | 265 |
The Miseries of Failure | 271 |
The Central Plains at War | 274 |
Stories in the Teeth of Life | 317 |
Notes | 339 |
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407 | |
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The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado Elliott West Omejen predogled - 1998 |
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado Elliott West Omejen predogled - 1998 |
The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado Elliott West Omejen predogled - 1998 |
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