The American Far West in the twentieth century

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Etulain, Richard W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Series:Lamar series in western history.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • The West in 1901
  • Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers
  • Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales
  • New forms of economic growth
  • Economic growth from the 1940s
  • The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities
  • Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War
  • Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases
  • Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation
  • Western politics
  • Expanding electorates
  • Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.