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

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The American West

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Professor Patrick N. Allitt

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Great courses. History. American history

history, myth, and legacy

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

Westward the course of empire -- The West in the colonial era -- Venturing beyond the Appalachians -- Discoveries of Lewis and Clark -- The fur trade and the mountain men -- Trail of tears -- Struggles of the Plains Indians -- Rebellious Texas and the Alamo -- Traveling the Oregon Trail -- Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War -- The California gold rush -- Bleeding Kansas and Civil War in the West -- Building the transcontinental railroads -- Cowboys and cattle drives -- Homesteaders on the plains -- Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee -- Life in western towns and cities -- John Wesley Powell and the desert southwest -- Women in the wild west -- From territories to western states -- Western violence, law, and order -- Protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite -- Mythology of the American West -- Winning the West?

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