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A View of the West
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All previous issues of History Now are available here
Born Modern:
An Overview of the West
by Richard White
A New Look at the Great Plains
by Elliott West
The Myth of the Frontier: Progress or Lost Freedom
by John Mack Faragher
The Road to a New Era of American Indian Autonomy
by Ned Blackhawk
Women of the West
by Virginia Scharff
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