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It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own
A New History of the American West
by Richard White
This book embodies the theme that, as succeeding groups have occupied
the American West and shaped the land, they have done so without regard
for present inhabitants.
"An excellent new synthesis of Western history . . .
[White] is a lively, graceful writer . . . and he tells a story very
different from the traditional picture of the progress of
Anglo-American civilization, but no less compelling."-New York Times
Book Review
"This book is nearly all-embracing in scope: in
well-written and densely packed chapters organized topically, White
takes us from the times of early Spanish explorers in the 1500s to the
years of the Ronald Reagan presidency."-Pacific Northwest Quarterly
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