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The American Far West in the 20th Century (Nonfiction)

by | Nov 1, 2008 | Western Books

Earl Pomeroy, Yale University Press, $35, Hardcover.
Richard W. Etulain has rescued and edited the last manuscript of the late University of Oregon professor. Pomeroy proves his thesis that the 20th century shaped our modern West more than the romanticized 19th century did. The region swung from rural to urban, while the rugged individualists of the 1800s yielded to community and corporate growth, fostered by the federal go


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