Argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year1900 as is commonly assumed but was shaped as much if not more by eventsand innovatio... » 

Argues that the unique history of the American West did not end in the year1900 as is commonly assumed but was shaped as much if not more by eventsand innovations in the twentieth century. This book shows how the post1900West charted a path that was influenced by but separate from the rest of thecountry and the world. «