The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• "Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Wednesday, August 5 2009.

• Added a contributor: Patricia Nelson Limerick: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Thursday, July 16 2009.

• WHEN ACADEMIC TERRITORIES were parceled out in the early twentieth century, anthropology got the tellers of tales and history got the keepers of written records.