The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West

The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/01/2006
ISBN: 9780393304978
Pages: 396
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.49w x 1.03d