"A leading western specialist argues that the history of the American West did not end in the year 1900 and was shaped as much by events and innovations in the

This edited volume takes stories from the "modern West" of the late twentieth century and carefully pulls them toward the present--explicitly tracing continuity

The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "

History of the relationship between the US Government--and Indians of the US.

Describes changes in how the West has been seen, from a male-dominated frontier, to a region with a powerful sense of place, to a modern center of both genders,