A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the developmen

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversit

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

Boundaries--lines imposed on the landscape--shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the c

Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region—