Power and Place in the North American WestRichard White, John M Findlay University of Washington Press, 1999 - 312 頁 In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming--first by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and stern-wheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses. |
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A Story of Power and Places Along the Columbia | 3 |
Violence Justice and State Power in the New Mexican Borderlands 17801880 | 23 |
Power Race and the Importance of Place | 61 |
Federal Power and Racial Politics in Los Angeles during World War II | 87 |
Boosting Los Angeles 18801930 | 117 |
Americanbom Chinese and Nisei in the Era of the Pacific War | 144 |
Power and Place in Western Tourism | 177 |
Timber Management on the Gifford Pinchot National Forest | 204 |
Spatial Relations of Power in Oregon Salmon Management | 233 |
The Rhetoric of Industrialism in the Oregon Country | 264 |
Women Mobility and Western Place | 287 |
Contributors | 301 |
Index | 301 |