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| Ch. 1 | Wakantapi and Juan Sabeata : Indian leadership and early European invasion in the new West | 5 |
| Ch. 2 | Juan Bautista de Anza : father and son - pillars of new Spain's far north | 29 |
| Ch. 3 | Stephen F. Austin and Dona Tules : a land agent and a gambler in the Mexican borderlands | 59 |
| Ch. 4 | George Vancouver, Lewis and Clark, and David Thompson : exploring the Pacific Northwest by tide and trail | 89 |
| Ch. 5 | Jedediah S. Smith and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman : mountain men and missionaries in the far West | 117 |
| Ch. 6 | Sam Brannan and Elizabeth Byers : mormons and miners at midcentury | 147 |
| Ch. 7 | Mariano Vallejo and Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton : cultural conflicts and compromises in the late-nineteenth-century West | 177 |
| Ch. 8 | Sarah Winnemucca, Chief Joseph, and native America's dilemma | 199 |
| Ch. 9 | Miller and Lux, Rachael Calof, Nannie Alderson, and the settlement of the agricultural frontier | 229 |
| Ch. 10 | "Buffalo Bill" Cody and Annie Oakley : romancing the West | 255 |
| Ch. 11 | James J. Hill, Jeannette Rankin, and John Muir : the American West in the progressive era, 1890 to 1920 | 283 |
| Ch. 12 | Sister Aimee Semple McPherson and the interwar West, 1920 to 1940 | 305 |
| Ch. 13 | Rosie the Riveter, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the American West transformed | 327 |
| Ch. 14 | Walt Disney, Cesar Chavez, Barbara Jordan, and the evolution of the West's identity, 1945 to 1980 | 355 |
| Ch. 15 | Paul Allen : high technology and the high country in a new West | 385 |
| Ch. 16 | The American West : a bibliographical essay | 413 |
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Justin Jump
reviewed Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West on September 07, 2012
Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West
Well I'll say this for Teddy, he is no dispassionate observer.
He is not shy about injecting his opinion into his historical writing.
... And 200 pages later, that observation has been confirmed in spades. Roosevelt never stops injecting himself and his views into the life story of someone else he never met.
And although I am no fan of the French, if I read one more time how they "lacked masculinity" in their actions as compared to Morris, I was going to bring him up on charges of sexual harassment.
Nonetheless, I know now more about one of our forgotten founding fathers and, like the author, he was quite a character.
A Federalist who wrote the final version of the Constitution (Madison always gets the credit because his notes form the basis of history's understanding of how the document got written); Morris had a wooden leg, was fearless and was the only diplomat to stay in Paris during the worst terrors of the French revolution.
Sadly, this proud legacy was sullied by extreme partisanship when, in later life, he supported the sucessionist impulses of New England and the north prior to, during, and after the War of 1812 and had hoped the convention held in New Haven, CT would have called for a sucession.
Needless to say, TR takes him to task for that. The book left me wishing for a more modern, more scholarly, less opinionated portrait, but you take what you can get for $1 in an antique store.
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