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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Distant horizon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1999 (OCoLC)606193514 Online version: Distant horizon. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607109473 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary Noy |
| ISBN: | 0803283717 9780803283718 |
| OCLC Number: | 39655121 |
| Notes: | "A Bison original"--P. [4] of cover. |
| Description: | xviii, 467 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- Spirit and the myth: Spirit -- Myth -- Explorers and mountain men -- Farmers and townsfolk -- Bury me in a tree: Mining frontier -- Iron horse: Railroad in the American west -- People and the response: Native Americans and dominant culture: People -- Response -- On both sides of the tin badge -- Women of the American west -- Westerners of color -- Far-flung battle line: Soldiers in the American west -- Cowboys and cowmen -- Sources -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | collected and edited by Gary Noy. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
From Thomas Hart Benton's famous speech in the Senate when he argued that nonwhite civilizations must fall before the western expansion of white Americans to Black Elk's story of a way of life lost on the frozen ground at Wounded Knee, Gary Noy offers a representative sampling of the many Wests that historians have struggled to define for over a century. Distant Horizon chronicles the dusty world of the cowboy, the hardscrabble existence of the farmer and the settler, and the miner's vision of golden glory. It examines the independent nature of the explorer and mountain man and the sometimes heroic, sometimes cruel existence of the soldier. We hear the voices of those outside the mainstream of power - women and westerners of color - and explore the most tragic element of western history: the confinement, subjugation, and extermination of Native Americans. No other single volume provides as many readings on as many topics in the history of the American West.
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