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Pathfinder:
The West
Scope|Overview
Sources|Circulating
Books|Periodicals, Journals & Trade
Publications|Videos
SCOPE: The American West has become a symbol of the pursuit of the American Dream, to venture into a new frontier that promises a golden future. The open land in the West created opportunities for expansion and development. As early as 1751, Benjamin Franklin referred to the west as a farmer's paradise. (Kurian, Encyclopedia of American Studies) The purpose of this pathfinder is to serve as a guideline for student research. It is not intended as a comprehensive listing, but as a selective sampling of the many types of resources available in the library.
SUBJECT HEADINGS
There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.
OVERVIEW SOURCES
REF E169.1.E625 2001 Encyclopedia of American Studies
REF E 174.094 2001 The Oxford Companion to United States History
REF TR 139.P35 2000 Pioneer Photographers of the Far
West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located in the second floor of the library are:
Blackhawk, Ned.
Violence
over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American
West. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press,
2006.
Carlson, Paul H. The Cowboy Way: An Exploration of
History and Culture. Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech University Press, 2000.
Hine, Robert V. The American West: A New Interpretive
History. New Haven,Conn: Yale University Press, 2000.
Jacobs, Wilbur R. On
Turner's Trail: 100 Years of
Writing Western History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
Josephy, Alvin M.. Jr.
Lewis and Clark Through Indian Eyes. New York:
Knopf, 2006.
Lawlor, Mary. Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the
Closing of the American West. New Brunswick,N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2000.
Matsumoto, Valerie J. and Blake Allmendinger. Over the
Edge: Remapping the American West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Moulton, Gary E.
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2001.
Nugent, Walter T.K. Into the West: The Story of Its
People. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1999.
Orsi, Richard J.
Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the
Development of American West, 1850-1930. Berkeley :
University of California Press, c2005.
Ronda, James P.
Finding the West: Explorations with Lewis and Clark.
Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
Schullery, Paul.
Lewis and Clark Among the Grizzlies: Legend and Legacy
in the
American West. Guilford, Conn: Falcon, 2002.
Schulte, Nordholt,J.W. The Myth of the West: America as the
Last Empire. Grand Rapids, Mich: William B. Eerdmans Pub.Co; 1995.
Tong, Benson and Regan A. Lutz. The Human Tradition in the American
West.
Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 2002.
Van Nuys, Frank. Americanizing the West: Race,
Immigrants, and Citizenship, 1890-1930. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 2002.
Werner, Emmy E. Pioneer Children on the Journey
West. Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
White, Richard. The Frontier in American Culture: An
Exhibition at the Newberry Library, August 26, 1994-January 7,
1995. Chicago: The Library, 1994.
Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer. A Mine of Her Own: Women
Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS
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VIDEOS
WEB
SITES
Center of the American
West
http://www.centerwest.org
This site, created by the University of Colorado,
focuses solely on the American West; land usage,
economic theory, energy policy, etc.
Updated
11/12/2007
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