The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking The History Of The Old West

Description

"The West is so cluttered with misconceptions that it is hard to have a serious discussion about its history." - Wallace Stegner.

For most Americans, the "Wild West" popularized in movies and pulp novels - a land of intrepid traders and explorers, warlike natives, and trigger-happy gunslingers - has become the true history of the region. The story of the West's development is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to former Secretary of the Interior and native westerner Stewart L. Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe.
In The Forgotten Founders, Udall draws on extensive research and his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement.
Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a "wild west" has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Udall substitutes a compelling description of an Old West, the West before the arrival of the railroads, which was the home place for those he calls the "wagon people," the men and women who came, camped, settled, and stayed. He offers a portrait of the West not as a government creation or a corporate colony or a Hollywood set for feckless gold seekers and gun fighters but as primarily a land where brave and hardy people came to make a new life with their families. From Native Americans to Franciscan friars to Mormon pioneers, these were the true settlers, whose goals, according to Udall were "amity not conquest; stability, not strife; conservation, not waste; restraint, not aggression." The Forgotten Founders offers a provocative new look at one of the most important chapters of American history, rescuing the Old West and its pioneers from the margins of history where latter-day mythmakers have dumped them. For anyone interested in the authentic history of the American West, it is an important and exciting new work.

Disclaimer:
Contents of this page are indexed from the Internet. All actions are under your responsability. Email us to report illegal contents or external links and we'll remove them immediately.

Please check the description for download links if any or do a search to find alternative books.

Can't Download?
Please search mirrors if you can't find download links for "The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking The History Of The Old West" in "Description" and someone else may update the links. Check the comments when back to find any updates.

Search Mirrors
Maybe some mirror pages will be helpful, search this book at top of this page or click here to find more info.

1. Ebooks list page : 1604
2. On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
3. On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
4. [share_ebook] On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
5. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
6. Rethinking Military History
7. Rethinking the History of American Education
8. Rethinking the History of American Education
9. Rethinking Asylum: History, Purpose, and Limits
10. Globalization and Global History (Rethinking Globalizations)
11. Pragmatism, Feminism, and Democracy: Rethinking the Politics of American History
12. Ronan Deazley - Rethinking Copyright: History, Theory, Language
13. Floods in Bangladesh: History, Dynamics And Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas
14. Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland: An Illustrated History, 1928-1996
15. A Short History of Malaysia: Linking East and West (Short History of Asia series, A)
16. Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets, and the World