Compelling pictorial history from actual newspaper and magazine accounts recreates vast saga of Western settlement and expansion: hunting, mining, railroading,

The West has figured in the American imagination under many guises: as the last best place on earth, a refuge, an escape, a land of opportunity, but also as a p

DIV In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by “r

The nineteenth century American frontier comes alive for students and interested readers in this unique exploration of westward expansion. This study examines t

The American West has taken on a rich and evocative array of regional identities since the late nineteenth century. Wilderness wonderland, Hispanic borderland,