Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
From guns to gavels From guns to gavels Bill Neal "Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provi… OL11994666W
Rough-hewn land Rough-hewn land Keith Heyer Meldahl "Rough-Hewn Land tells the geologic story of the American West--the story of its rocks, rivers, mountains, earthquakes, and mineral wealth, including gold. It tells it by taking you on a 1000-mile-lo… OL16342319W
The Black West The Black West William Loren Katz The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost ev… OL1880557W
Post-cowboy economics Post-cowboy economics Thomas Michael Power,Richard Barrett Are the economic woes afflicting the North American West caused by increasingly strict environmental regulations on natural resource industries such as mining and logging? In "Post-Cowboy Economics",… OL20904217W
The Great American West The Great American West James D. Horan Here is the full western story, from the days of the conquistadores to the twentieth century, in an account notable not only for its comprehensiveness, but also for its amazing collection of photogra… OL2693154W
The mythic West in twentieth-century America The mythic West in twentieth-century America Robert G. Athearn Just what and where is the West? Why have so many been so obsessed with finding and saving that mythic time and place? What has the West meant to those who have lived there and to the millions more w… OL3753163W