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The American West, history, myth, and legacy, Patrick N. Allitt

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The American West, history, myth, and legacy, Patrick N. Allitt

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The American West

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1001230699

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Patrick N. Allitt

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The great courses. History. American historyThe great courses

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history, myth, and legacy

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Experience the grit and the glory of the early American West with an acclaimed Great Courses professor

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1. Westward the course of Empire -- 2. The West in the Colonial era -- 3. Venturing beyond the Appalachians -- 4. Discoveries of Lewis and Clark -- 5. The fur trade and the mountain men -- 6. Trail of tears -- 7. Struggles of the Plains Indians -- 8. Rebellious Texas and the Alamo -- 9. Traveling the Oregon Trail -- 10. Manifest destiny and the Mexican War -- 11. The California Gold Rush -- 12. Bleeding Kansas and Civil War in the West -- 13. Building the transcontinental railroads -- 14. Cowboys and cattle drives -- 15. Homesteaders on the Plains -- 16. Little Bighorn and wounded Kne -- 17. Life in Western towns and cities -- 18. John Wesley Powell and the desert Southwest -- 19. Women in the Wild West -- 20. From territories to Western states -- 21. Western violence, law, and order -- 22. Protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite -- 23. Mythology of the American West -- 24. Winning the West?

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