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The New Encyclopedia of the American West Hardcover - 1998

by Howard R. Lamar (Editor)

A thoroughly revised and expanded version of Lamar's acclaimed 20-year-old "Reader's Encyclopedia of the West", this book consists of more than 2,400 entries in alphabetical order by more than 300 contributors, plus over 600 illustrations.


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The American West is an evocative term that conjures up images of cowboys and Indians, covered wagons, sheriffs and outlaws, and endless prairies as well as contemporary images ranging from national parks to the oil, aerospace, and film industries. In addition, the West encompasses not only the past and present of the area west of the Mississippi but also the frontier as it moved across each of the fifty American states, offering the promise of freedom and a better life to pioneers and settlers in every era. This authoritative, comprehensive, and lavishly illustrated single-volume encyclopedia is a rich source of information about these many American West, real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country's history and culture. The encyclopedia, a thoroughly revised and expanded version of Howard Lamar's acclaimed twenty-year-old Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, consists of more than 2,400 entries in alphabetical order by more than 300 contributors, along with over 600 illustrations and maps (four times more than in the original edition). The book includes articles by such authorities as Leonard J. Arrington on Mormonism, Anne Butler on prisons and prostitutes, John Mack Faragher on the fur trade, California, and television and radio westerns, Martha Sandweiss on photography, and Ron Tyler on western prints. Among the other topics covered are: the formative period of each state; the diplomacy of American expansion; important discoverers and mountain men; major Native American tribes, their leaders, and culture; pivotal women such as Sacagawea, Annie Oakley, and Willa Cather; African Americans, Asian Americans, and Mexican Americans on the western frontier; novelists, artists, and filmmakers and the real and fictional people they turned into mythic heroes or villains; politicians from Benjamin Franklin to Ronald Reagan; major cities and landmarks; and conservation and wildlife issues. The West continues to be a symbol of both America's frontier past and its troubled future. This book is an indispensable introduction to its endlessly fascinating story.

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  • Title The New Encyclopedia of the American West
  • Author Howard R. Lamar (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 1344
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Date 1998-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780300070880 / 0300070888
  • Weight 6.6 lbs (2.99 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.23 x 9.05 x 2.21 in (28.52 x 22.99 x 5.61 cm)
  • Ages 13 to 17 years
  • Grade levels 8 - 12
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects West (U.S.) - History - Encyclopedias, Frontier and pioneer life - West (U.S.) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98006231
  • Dewey Decimal Code 978.003

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Citations

  • ALA Ref Srces for Small/Med Li, 01/01/2000, Page 283
  • American Reference Bks Annual, 01/01/1999, Page 188
  • Booklist, 11/15/1998, Page 613
  • Library Journal, 09/01/1998, Page 174
  • LJ Best Reference Sources, 01/01/1999, Page 59
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/1999, Page 85

About the author

Howard R. Lamar is Sterling Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University and former president of the university. He is also a past president of the Western Historical Association.
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