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Article: Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen.(Review)
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- January 1, 2001
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Eyewitness to the American West: From the Aztec Empire to the Digital Frontier in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen. Edited by David Colbert. (New York: Viking, 1998. Pp. 495. $25.95.)
This is an excellent follow-up to the author's successful recent collection, Eyewitness to America. As he demonstrated in that earlier volume, David Colbert has a knack for gathering interesting primary sources. Historians of the western United States would do well to include a copy in their collections, especially because there is a comparative scarcity of primary source collections available in the field. American historians as a whole, and the broader general public, will ...