Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West 0525561668, 9780525561668

Frontier Mission: A History of Religion West of the Southern Appalachians to 1861 9780813111193

Religion is viewed here as the great cultural force which introduced and preserved civilization in the era of westward e

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Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West [1 ed.] 0520267761, 9780520267763

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animat

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Frontier Figures: American Music and the Mythology of the American West 9780520952027

Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animat

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Unsettled Ground: The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West 163217250X, 9781632172501

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory prov

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The Killing Compartments: The Mentality of Mass Murder 9780300210675

An incisive exploration of why acts of mass annihilation take place and how people become mass killers By historical s

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Dead Run: The Murder of a Lawman and the Greatest Manhunt of the Modern American West 9781250042699, 9780312681883, 9781250023421, 1250042690

Evoking Into the Wild and The Monkey Wrench Gang, Dead Run is the extraordinary true story of three desperado survivalis

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Frontier Boosters: Port Townsend and the Culture of Development in the American West 9780773591882

A social history of boosterism, class, and race on the North American frontier.

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Murder, Witchcraft and the Killing of Wildlife Police Investigations at the Heart of Africa. 9781526764089, 9781526764119, 9781526764072, 9781526764096, 1526764083

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Jewish Women Pioneering the Frontier Trail: A History in the American West 9780814707739

The image of the West looms large in the American imagination. Yet the history of American Jewry and particularly of Ame

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Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940 (History of the American West) 9781496229557, 9781496228611, 2021007076, 149622955X

To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American

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