The American Far West in the twentieth century

Main Author: Pomeroy, Earl S. 1915-2005.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Etulain, Richard W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Series:The Lamar series in Western history
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10348442
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.