191209
9780679777496
"The area, Nugent acknowledges, is too big for a unified history. His approach is to skip around, region by region....The book leaves a keen sense that the West has always been a work in progress. Although historians like Frederick Jackson Turner pronounced the frontier closed by 1890, people kept coming. The region grew almost twice as fast as the nation in the 1890s."Walter Nugent is the author of 'Into the West: The Story of Its People', published 2001 under ISBN 9780679777496 and ISBN 0679777490.
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