A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the developmen

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversit

Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

Reconciling explosive growth with often majestic landscape defines New Geographies of the American West. Geographer William Travis examines contemporary land us