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Article: Frontiers: A Short History of the American West.(Book review)
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Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. By Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. vii, 248. $28.00.)
This volume is the abridged, updated edition of the authors' now classic study The American West: A New Interpretive History [2000], which in turn was a major revision, if not a rewriting, of Robert V. Hine's survey, American West: An Interpretive History [1973, 2d ed. 1984]. The American West was warmly welcomed by academics because it provided a readable and intelligent text that straddled the infighting between Old and New Western historians. Ranging from the first contacts between native peoples and ...