The Contested Plains
by West, ElliottFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Univ Pr of Kansas
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Summary
Winner: Francis Parkman Prize. Pen Center West Award. Ray Allen Billington Prize. Caughey Western History Prize. Western Writers of America Spur Award. Caroline Bancroft Prize. Book jacket.
Author Biography
Elliott West is professor of history at the University of Arkansas.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Prologue: A Scrap and a Panic | p. 1 |
| Visions | |
| The Old World | p. 17 |
| Frontiers and Visions | p. 33 |
| The Called Out People | p. 63 |
| Gold Rush | |
| The Gold | p. 97 |
| The Gathering | p. 115 |
| The Rush | p. 145 |
| Power | |
| Path of Empire | p. 173 |
| On the Road to a Flourishing Mountain State | p. 207 |
| The People of the Centre | p. 237 |
| The Miseries of Failure | p. 271 |
| Epilogue: Stories in the Teeth of Life | p. 317 |
| Notes | p. 339 |
| Bibliography | p. 383 |
| Index | p. 407 |
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