A01=Elliott West
american frontier
Author_Elliott West
Caroline Bancroft Prize
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Caughey Award
central great plains
cheyenne tribe
Choice Outstanding Title
colorado gold rush
emigration across the central plains
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Francis Parkman Prize
great plains history
kiowa
native american horse culture
PEN Center USA West Literary Award in Research Nonfiction
Ray Allen Billington Prize
visions of the central plains
Product details
- ISBN 9780700610297
- Weight: 627g
- Dimensions: 155 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 1998
- Publisher: University Press of Kansas
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although many books have been written about the Colorado gold rush, this one concentrates on assessing the cataclysmic changes that it brought to the Great Plains. In addition, rather than casting the story in the usual terms of heartless aggressors and hapless victims, it supplies a large and insightful interpretation that at once softens and increases our understanding of the Anglo disruption of Plains Indian cultures. The book's lucid writing and extensive research give meaning to the frontier concept that has been lambasted for 30 years or more. West's story is a story of cultural revisions - and thus the imaginations and aspirations of many people.
