{"title":"Richard W. Etulain","description":"Richard W. Etulain is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Mexico, where he also edited the New Mexico Historical Review (1979-1985 and 1991) and directed the Center for the American West (1989-2001). Etulain served as president at both the Western Literature and Western History associations. He is the author or editor of more than sixty books on the history and cultures of the American West.","products":[{"product_id":"beyond-the-missouri-the-story-of-the-american-west-paperback","title":"Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new historical overview tells the dramatic story of the American West from its prehistory to the present. A narrative history, it covers the region from the North Dakota-to-Texas states to the Pacific Coast. This West has always been home to richly diverse cultural groups, including today's growing numbers of Indian, Hispanic, Asian and African Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOther distinctions have marked the western past: first, the differences among prehistoric peoples and among hundreds of Indian tribes at first white contact; next, the varied western subcultures that emerged in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; third the social, cultural, and political complexities of the West in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Beyond the Missouri\u003c\/em\u003e, Richard Etulain provides a fresh, balanced narrative of this geographically and culturally vast area and emphasizes two themes: change and complexity. His perspective is neither the too-optimistic, homogenized position of the Turnerian school of historians nor the less optimistic, conflicted approach of the revisionist western historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEtulain begins his study with a discussion of western landscapes and Native inhabitants. He next examines the Spanish Southwest, colonial rivalries, mountain men, missionaries, and the Oregon Trail. Then Etulain looks at Mormons, miners, western communities, ranching and farming, and transportation networks. He treats western frontier social patterns and cultures and contributes several chapters on the modern West, including the pre-World War II and the Cold War Wests. Etulain concludes with today's continuing search for an American West. Each of the fifteen chapters contains a helpful list of suggested readings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Richard Etulain has done a remarkable job in this major new book. 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