The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado
9 best books like The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (Elliott West): Dreadnought, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War, The Comanche Empire, The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, Old Jules, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West, At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0345375564 |
"A classic [that] covers superbly a whole era...Engrossing in its glittering gallery of characters."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Robert K. Massie has written a richly textured and gripping chronicle of the personal and national rivalries that led to the twentieth...
| Author | Thomas G. Andrews |
| ISBN | 0674031016 |
On a spring morning in 1914, in the stark foothills of southern Colorado, members of the United Mine Workers of America clashed with guards employed by the Rockefeller family, and a state militia beholden to Colorado’s industrial barons. When the dust settled, nineteen men, women, and children...
| Author | Pekka Hämäläinen |
| ISBN | 0300126549 |
A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico....
| Author | Joe Starita |
| ISBN | 0803292945 |
Joe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family. In 1878, the renowned Chief Dull Knife, who fought alongside Crazy Horse, escaped from forced relocation in Indian Territory and led followers on a desperate six-hundred-mile freedom flight back to their homeland....
| Author | William Cronon |
| ISBN | 0809016346 |
The book that launched environmental history now updated.
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize
In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
| Author | Mari Sandoz |
| ISBN | 0803293240 |
First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts,”...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
| Author | Hal K. Rothman |
| ISBN | 0700610561 |
The West is popularly perceived as America's last outpost of unfettered opportunity, but twentieth-century corporate tourism has transformed it into America's "land of opportunism." From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns throughout the West have been turned over to outsiders--and not just to those...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Erika Lee |
| ISBN | 0807854484 |
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in...
