Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940U of Nebraska Press, 2022 - History ""Making a Modern U.S. West" provides an overview of the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1942 centering on what is often put at the margins in histories of the region-the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders"-- |
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