Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion West Elliott
Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion West Elliott In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital…
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Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion West Elliott
In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations.Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations.
As those resources were developed, often by the most
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