Daily Life in the American West

Jason E. Pierce

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9798216071129
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Daily Life in the American West details the lives of American Indians, miners, cowboys, immigrants, and settlers who, together, populated the unique region that is the American West. Daily Life in the American West combines the credibility and coverage of a history textbook with a close and nuanced view of the amazing peoples who struggled to make a home for themselves in a beautiful and evocative but harsh and unforgiving region. Included here are close descriptions of how a variety of peoples lived their daily lives, from nomadic Indian tribes to Chinese immigrants and from cowboys to city-dwellers. It also conveys how those individual lives are reflected in the sweeping changes that occurred in a century that saw the West become the most modern and diverse of all the nation's regions. Readers will also find the expected cast of characters (gunfighters, American Indian leaders, cowboys, and so on) that have long captured the imagination of people around the world covered with an academic focus that tries to tell an accurate story of the West and its role in the United States. The book provides the scale of a textbook, but in a more-engaging format that should appeal to students and the general public.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Timeline
• Glossary
• 1. Domestic Life Of American Indians in the American West
• 2. Domestic Life on the Overland Trails
• 3. Domestic Life on the Mining Frontier
• 4. Economic Life in the American West
• 5. Political Life in the American West
• 6. Religious Life in the American West
• 7. The Indian Wars and the Transformation of Daily Life for American Indians
• 8. Intellectual Life and the Myth of the West
• Epilogue: The Future of the West
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author