The Legacy of Conquest

The Unbroken Past of the American West

Author: Patricia Nelson Limerick
ISBN: 0393304973

The "settling" of the American West has been powerfully perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventuresmost withhappy endings and a process that came to an end with the "closing" of thefrontier in the 1890s. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the AmericanWest has a history grounded in primary economic realityin hardheaded questionsof profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. In The Legacy of Conquest, 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.

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 1987

Subjects: History / Military / General, History / United States / General, History / United States / State & Local / General, History / United States / 19th Century

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