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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 19: Conflict and Change in the West, 1865-1902
Ray Allen Billington, and Martin Ridge. Westward
Expansion: A History of the American Frontier, 5th ed. (1982).
A detailed treatment of the West and the frontier,
largely from a Turnerian perspective.
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:
An Indian History of the American West (1971).
One of the first efforts to write from the
Indians’ perspective, drawing on oral histories.
Sucheng Chan. Asian Americans: An Interpretive
History (1990).
A good introduction to the history of Asian
Americans.
Juan Gómez-Quiñones. Roots of Chicano Politics,
1600–1940 (1994).
An overview of the political history of Mexican
Americans from the first Spanish settlements in the Southwest up to World War
II.
Norris Hundley, Jr. The Great Thirst: Californians
and Water, 1770s–1990s (1992).
One of the best of a number of recent studies
surveying the role of water in the West.
Robert M. Utley. The Lance and the Shield:
The Life and Times of Sitting Bull (1993).
An exhaustively researched biography that incorporates
much of the history of the northern plains from the early nineteenth century
to the end of the Indian wars.
Richard White, "It's your misfortune
and none of my own": A History of the American West (1991).
A history of the West from one of the leading
figures in the "new" western history.
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