Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways, David Wrobel offers a counternarrative to the nation's romantic entanglement with its western past and suggests the importance of some long-overlooked authors, lively and perceptive witnesses to our history who deserve new attention.

After almost four decades devoted to researching Kit Carson's personal life, Marc Simmons provides information here to further our understanding of Carson.

Narrates the evolution of the western story from the Civil War to the present, focusing on books, movies, and people.

Strickland argues that Indians can better sustain their worldview through law and culture, by remaining true to their heritage, tradition, and spirituality.

Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.

In these four essays, which were presented as the 1992 Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture, Donald Worster incisively discusses the role of the natural environment in the making of the West--and often in its unmaking and remaking.

How a new style of politics coalesced into an ethnic populism known as the Chicano movement.

Explores the complex ways that myth and history have intersected in the remembrance of the Southwest's Hispanic past.