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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
Written by Patricia Nelson Limerick, PhD
Narrated by Pam Ward
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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 descendants mean business today.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This would be an excellent Mencken-ish send-up of Western politics if Limerick weren't so earnest about history scholarship being able to sort out our problems. If only we realized most of the United States originally belonged to Mexico! Then our illegal immigration problems would... what, exactly? Go away?Earnestness aside, there's some really funny stuff in here. And a decent survey of western history scholarship. As is usual in academic books, you're better off skipping the first and last chapters, and you'll still run into some sentences like this: "When horses met Volkswagens in what had once been wilderness, it was obvious that a great deal had changed in the American West." [p. 134]
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A classic of Western history, Limerick was among the first to write in women and non-whites into the Western narrative.