The American West
by Thomas Long

• Alvin M. Josephy Jr. The Civil War in the American West  bookreview

Assigned Books

• History, Frontier, and Section, Three Essays by Frederick Jackson Turner. Introduction by Martin Ridge
• Does the Frontier Experience Make America Exceptional ed. by Richard W. Etulain.
• W.W. Robinson, Land in California: The Story of Mission Lands Ranchos, Squatters, Mining Claims, Railroad Grants Land Scrip, Homesteads, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1948.
• Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness
• Susanne K. George, Adventures of the Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart
• Goseph G. Rosa, Wild Bill Hickok, Gunffighter
• Burton Rascoe, Belle Starr, introduced by Glenda Riley
• Paula Wagoner, "They Treated Us Just Like Indians"