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Motion pictures --- Social aspects --- History --- Political aspects --- West (U.S.) --- Southern States --- In motion pictures.
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Noam Maggor shows how the moneyed elite in Gilded Age Boston leveraged their wealth to forge transcontinental networks of commodities, labor, and transportation. With the decline of cotton-based textile manufacturing, these gentleman bankers found new business opportunities in the mines, railroads, and industries of the Great West.
Capitalism --- Capitalists and financiers --- History --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- United States --- Economic conditions
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Real property --- Public lands --- Public land records --- Management. --- West (U.S.) --- United States. --- United States, West.
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Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the trans-Mississippi theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.
United States --- Southwest, Old --- West (U.S.) --- Central States --- Central States Region --- Old Southwest --- South Central States --- Sunbelt States --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- History --- Campaigns.
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The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action, and in natural resource conservation and preservation. Using regionalism as a lens for illuminating these national trends, America's West: A History, 1890-1950 examines this region's history and explores its influence on the rest of America. Moving chronologically from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century, David M. Wrobel examines turn-of-the-century expansion, the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II, and the early Cold War years. He emphasizes cultural and political history, showing how developments in the West frequently indicated the future direction of the country.
Politics and culture --- Culture --- Culture and politics --- History --- Political aspects --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Politics and government
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Physical geography --- Geology --- Geography --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Great Plains. --- Plains, Great --- Northwest, Canadian --- West (U.S.)
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Nat Love's memoir Life and Adventures of Nat Love is one of the only firsthand accounts of an African American cowhand in the western United States from this period. Love and his parents were owned by planter Robert Love, and after Emancipation, his parents remained on Love's plantation as sharecroppers while Nat left and headed west. He found work as a cowboy, first on the Duval Ranch in the Texas panhandle, then on the Gallinger Ranch in southern Arizona. Love's narrative details his many adventures and exploits, such as being captured and shot by Pima Indians, who eventually spared his life because they sympathized with his plight as a black man. In Deadwood, Dakota Territory, he entered a rodeo, winning $200 and the nickname Deadwood Dick, a reference to a literary character from a dime novel of the day. Published in 1907, the Life and Adventures of Nat Love would help to make Love a black folk hero of the Old West.
Cowboys --- African American cowboys --- Afro-American cowboys --- Cowboys, African American --- Negroes as cowboys --- Love, Nat, --- West (U.S.)
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American fiction --- Metaphor in literature. --- Barbed wire --- Wire fencing --- Fences --- Wire --- American literature --- Themes, motives. --- History --- West (U.S.) --- Social life and customs
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Real property --- Public lands --- Public land records --- Real property. --- Public lands. --- Public land records. --- Management. --- West (U.S.) --- United States. --- United States, West.
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American bison --- American buffalo --- Bison, American --- Bison americanus --- Bison bison --- Bison occidentalis --- Bison sylvestris --- Bos bison --- Buffalo, American --- Bison --- History. --- Great Plains --- Plains, Great --- Northwest, Canadian --- West (U.S.) --- American bison.
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