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HISTORY OF AMERICAN WEST

Course Code:
HIS 230
Course Group(s):
AMERICAN HISTORY COURSES, CONTEXTS AND SYSTEMS
Active Term:
Fall Term
/ Even Years
Course Description:
Although there are earlier "wests" in American history, the focus in this course is on the trans-Mississippi West, that mythic landscape which has shaped so much of both American history and our national identity. There we encounter the native peoples who first inhabited the region and the European Americans who largely supplanted them and sought to tame an unforgivably vast, unceasingly sublime landscape. Students encounter explorers, trappers, cowboys, gunslingers, railroad builders, gold rush miners, cattle barons, homesteaders, sightseers, dam builders, Dust Bowl migrants, and more, all of whose encounters with the West are the stuff of legend and history.
Credit:
3
Instruction methods:
Lecture
Total hours: 45
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