The West : an illustrated history / narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward ; based on a documentary film script by Geoffrey C. Ward and Dayton Duncan ; with a preface by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns ; and contributions by Dayton Duncan [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Contributor:

Duncan, Dayton.

Ives, Stephen, writer of preface.

Burns, Ken, 1953- writer of preface.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

West (U.S.)--History.

West (U.S.).

West (U.S.)--History--Pictorial works.

Geschichte.

Frontier.

West United States.

Local Subjects:

Geschichte.

Frontier.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1996]

Summary:

Focuses chiefly on the 19th century which is the period that defined the American West in popular imagination.

Contents:

Preface / by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns

The northern mystery : Other wests / by Richard White

The most avid nation : The mission at Waiilatpu : a meeting place for western women / by Julie Roy Jeffrey

Seeing the elephant : Myth and myopia : Hispanic peoples and western history / by David G. Gutiíerrez

A hell of a storm : Believing in the American West / by Patricia Nelson Limerick

The grandest enterprise under God : Great migrations : the pioneer in the American West / by John Mack Faragher

Rivers run backward : Wilderness and the West / by T.H. Watkins

The great die-up : The American West and the burden of belief / by N. Scott Momaday

The outcome of our earnest endeavors : Monument Valley / by Dayton Duncan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 435) and index.

ISBN:

0316922366

9780316922364

OCLC:

34076431