Preface
I Trails: The New Western History
1. Beyond the Agrarian Myth, Donald Worster
2. Trashing the Trails, Richard White
3. Western Women at the Cultural Crossroads, Peggy Pascoe
4. The Trail to Santa Fe: The Unleashing of the Western Public Intellectual, Patricia Nelson Limerick
II Appraising the Territories: Old and New Western Histories
5. What on Earth is the New Western History?, Patricia Nelson Limerick
6. Another Look at Frontier/Western Historiography, Gerald Thompson
7. The “New Western History,” an Assessment, Michael P. Malone
8. A Longer, Grimmer, but More Interesting Story, Elliott West
9. American Wests: Historiographical Perspectives, Brian W. Dippie
III The Global West
10. Beyond the Last Frontier: Toward a New Approach to Western American History, Michael P. Malone
11. Frontiers and Empires in the Late Nineteenth Century, Walter Nugent
12. Laying Siege to Western History: The Emergence of New Paradigms, William G. Robbins
Notes
The Contributors
Index