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Western Lore and Language is the first dictionary to document the extraordinary range of words that are an integral part of the West, old and new. Focusing on words that either originated in the West (forty-niner, skookum, quaking aspen), are used mainly in the West (butte, skink, Spanish sword), or are associated with the West (mesa, rodeo, surfer), Thomas Clark has compiled an entertaining and essential reference of the Western word. This generously illustrated. resource gives readers everything they need to talk western: a pinch of Border Spanish, (Tex-Mex, Tejana, Spanglish), some California Mellow, a generous portion of Old West, and a broad scoop of New West (from vineyard cultivation to Valley Girl vapidity). For more serious readers, the dictionary also offers complete lexicological entries for each word - part of speech, pronunciation, definition, source, etymology, dates, cross-references, and editorial comments.
English language --- Americanisms --- English Language --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Germanic languages --- Slang --- Dictionaries. --- Dictionaries --- Provincialisms --- Dialects --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Social life and customs
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A collection of writings which emphasize the dreams about the New World that combined with other factors to lead Europeans swarming over a continent.
Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- United States Local History --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Discovery and exploration. --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800.
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"The outgrowth of two symposiums sponsored by the University of Utah College of Law's Wallace Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment"--Ack.
Environmental management --- Environmental Sciences --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Environmental conditions.
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Agriculture --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Agriculture - General --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- History. --- History --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Civilization.
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"Sixty-eight selections representing writers who spent their creative years in Nevada from the 1860s to the early twentieth century and have become known as the Sagebrush School. Features Mark Twain, Dan De Quille, Sam Davis, Joe Goodman, and Rollin Daggett, and lesser-known writers Arthur McEwen, Fred Hart, and others"--Provided by publisher.
American literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Civilization.
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The American West used to be a story of gunfights, glory, wagon trails, and linear progress. Historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner and Hollywood movies such as Stagecoach (1939) and Shane (1953) cast the trans-Mississippi region as a frontier of epic proportions where 'savagery' met 'civilization' and boys became men.
Frontier and pioneer life --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Historiography. --- In popular culture. --- Historiography --- In popular culture
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Landscapes --- Regionalism --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Historical geography.. --- Historical geography.
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Western films --- Western television programs --- History and criticism. --- West (U.S.) --- In motion pictures. --- Westerns --- Westerns (Television programs) --- Television programs --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States
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Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of westward expansion.The Seven Years War brought an end to the French colonial enterprise in North America, but the French in towns such as New Orleans, St. Louis, and Detroit survived the transition to American rule. French traders from Mid-America such as the Chouteaus and Robidouxs of St. Louis then became agents of change in the West, perfecting a strategy of "middle grounding" by pursuing alliances within Indian and Mexican communities in advance of American settlement and re-investing fur trade profits in land, town sites, banks, and transportation. The Bourgeois Frontier provides the missing French connection between the urban Midwest and western expansion.
French --- French Americans --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Ethnology --- Franco-Americans --- Frenchmen (French people) --- History. --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States --- Ethnic relations.
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Frontier and pioneer life --- Overland journeys to the Pacific --- Transcontinental journeys (United States) --- Travels --- Voyages and travels --- West (U.S.) --- American West --- Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) --- United States, Western --- Western States (U.S.) --- Western United States