Format:
1 online resource (270 pages)
ISBN:
9781610910705
Content:
"In The Forgotten Founders, Stewart Udall draws on his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement.Stewart Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a ""wild west"" has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Stewart Udall substitutes a compelling description of an Old West, the West before the arrival of the railroads, which was the home place for those he calls the ""wagon people,"" the men and women who came, camped, settled, and stayed. He offers a portrait of the West not as a government creation or a corporate colony or a Hollywood set for feckless gold seekers and gun fighters but as primarily a land where brave and hardy people came to make a new life with their families. From Native Americans to Franciscan friars to Mormon pioneers, these were the true settlers, whose goals, according to Stewart Udall were ""amity not conquest; stability, not strife; conservation, not waste; restraint, not aggression."" The Forgotten Founders offers a provocative new look at one of the most important chapters of American history, rescuing the Old West and its pioneers from the margins of history where latter-day mythmakers have dumped them. For anyone interested in the authentic history of the American West, it is an important and exciting new work.".
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- introduction: How the West's Settlers Were Ousted from Their Olympian Ledge -- Part I: Beginnings -- Ch 1: Native Peoples: The First Forgotten Founders -- Ch 2: European Settlers: Human Faces, Far-Flung Places -- Part II: Settlement in the Old West: Correcting the Record -- Ch 3: Explorers and Fur Trappers -- Ch 4: The Religion Factor in Western Settlement -- Ch 5: The Manifest Destiny Morass -- Ch 6: California Gold Fever: Fact and Fancy -- Ch 7: Bootstrap Capitalism in the Old West -- Part III: Violence in the Old West: Correcting the Record -- Ch 8: The Wild West and te Wrenching of the American Chronicle -- Ch 9: The Wild West and the Settlers: Contrasting Visions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes and Suggested Readings -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- chapter 7 -- chapter 8 -- chapter 9 -- Index -- About the Author.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781559638937
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781559638937
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=3317371
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