The American West: A New Interpretive History (The Lamar Series in Western History)

This grand survey of the history of the American West presents a panoramic view of events and characters from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans through the 1990s. Illustrated with more than 150 contemporary drawings, posters, and photographs, the book presents in fascinating detail the frontier`s diverse peoples and cultures, landscapes, environmental history, literature, visual arts, and more.