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The Human Tradition in the American West is an engrossing collection of 13 biographies of men and women whose contributions to the development of the American West have largely been left untold in the history books. This volume goes beyond the traditional biographical reader by including the lives that collectively offer racial and gender diversity as well as differing class and sexual orientation backgrounds. Editors Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz have assembled an impressive group of scholars whose succinct and well-written accounts will give students a more complete understanding of this diverse, dynamic region of the United States.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: The West in Its Many Incarnations Chapter 2 Francisco Javier Clavijero and the Founding of the Literary West Chapter 3 Eliza Hart Spalding: Missionary Legacy of a Forgotten Feminist Chapter 4 MarÌa Amparo Ruiz Burton and The Squatter and the Don Chapter 5 Henry De Groot and the Mining West Chapter 6 William Jefferson Hardin: Wyoming's Nineteenth-Century Black Legislator Chapter 7 Henry Ossian Flipper: African American Western Pioneer Chapter 8 Clare True and Female Moral Authority Chapter 9 Joseph W. Brown: Native American Politician Chapter 10 Eugene Pulliam: Municipal Booster Chapter 11 William O. Douglas: The Environmental Justice Chapter 12 Margaret Chung and the Dilemma of a Bicultural Identity Chapter 13 Robert Burnette: A Postwar Lakota Activist Chapter 14 Harvey Milk: San Francisco and the Gay Migration
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Edited by Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz
Summary
A collection of 13 biographies of men and women who have contributed to the development of the American West. It includes the lives that collectively offer racial and gender diversity as well as differing class and sexual orientation backgrounds.
