Table of Contents

• Preface
• I Trails: The New Western History
• 1. Beyond the Agrarian Myth, Donald Worster
• 2. Trashing the Trails, Richard White
• 3. Western Women at the Cultural Crossroads, Peggy Pascoe
• 4. The Trail to Santa Fe: The Unleashing of the Western Public Intellectual, Patrica Nelson Limerick
• II Appraising the Territories: Old and New Western Histories
• 5. What on Earth is the New Western History?, Patricia Nelson Limerick
• 6. Another Look at Frontier/Western Historiography, Gerald Thompson
• 7. The ""New Western History,"" an Assessment, Michael P. Malone
• 8. A Longer, Grimmer, but More Interesting Story, Elliott West
• 9. American Wests: Historiographical Perspectives, Brian W. Dippie
• III The Global West
• 10. Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History, Michael P. Malone
• 11. Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century, Walter Nugent
• 12. Laying Siege to Western History: The Emergence of New Paradigms, William G. Robbins
• Notes
• The Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Patricia Nelson Limerick is professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and author of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

Clyde A. Milner II is professor of history emeritus at Arkansas State University.

Charles E. Rankin is acquisitions editor at the University of Oklahoma Press.

Reviews

"A stimulating showcase of "new western history" arguments."--American Historical Review"This book is among the most stimulating, thought provoking and, at the same time most controversial publications dealing with western American history."--Western Historical Quarterly"An excellent introduction to the fundamental issues affecting contemporary interpretations of the American West."--Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains"This book is rich fare. It sparkles with bold dissent, provides alternative strategies and approaches, and contains no small measure of useful summary and judicious evaluation."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly

"A stimulating showcase of "new western history" arguments."--American Historical Review"This book is among the most stimulating, thought provoking and, at the same time most controversial publications dealing with western American history."--Western Historical Quarterly"An excellent introduction to the fundamental issues affecting contemporary interpretations of the American West."--Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains"This book is rich fare. It sparkles with bold dissent, provides alternative strategies and approaches, and contains no small measure of useful summary and judicious evaluation."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly