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The new encyclopedia of the American West / edited by Howard R. Lamar.
LIBRA F591 .N46 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- West (U.S.)--History--Encyclopedias.
- West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Encyclopedias.
- West United States.
- Local Subjects:
- West (U.S.)--History--Encyclopedias.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- History.
- Reference works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 1324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- "Embraces not only major events in the history of the trans-Mississippi West but the frontier or 'western' stage of all 50 American states."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Contains histories of places and events; biographies of notable persons in American western history; descriptions of American western geography and places; a chronology or timeline of the American west; a complete list of contributors; and illustrations credits.
- Notes:
- Revised edition of: The Reader's encyclopedia of the American West. 1st ed. c1977.
- National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for nonfiction, 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0300070888
- 9780300070880
- OCLC:
- 38580099
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