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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West - Limerick, Patricia Nelson, Professor
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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 ...

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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West 2006, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780393304978

Trade paperback

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West 1987, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780393023909

Hardcover