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Continental Reckoning

The American West in the Age of Expansion
  • Elliott West
2023
University of Nebraska Press

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Featured Excerpts

  • John Gast's 1872 painting "American Progress," in which Miss Columbia, a personification of the enlightening United States, is depicted leading pioneers over the western plains.
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    Two Years That Made the West

    In a momentous couple of years, the young United States added more than a million square miles of territory, including Texas and California. 
    by Elliott West via American Heritage on July 3, 2024
  • A herd of bison.
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    A Panoramic View of the West

    A sweeping new history examines many untold stories of the American West in the late nineteenth century.
    by Bradley J. Birzer via Law & Liberty on December 13, 2023
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