The American West: 
A New Interpretive History
by Robert V. Hine 
& John Mack Faragher
$44 (616 page paperback)

Publishers Weekly wrote, "In a stirring and enlightening reexamination of the American West, the authors gauge the impact of key trends and events -- the American Revolution, the multiethnic Gold Rush, the 1867 purchase of Russian America, the US-Mexican War, the New Deal -- in shaping the West's socioeconomic development.  The American West of legend, brimming with ruggedly individualistic cowboys, intrepid pioneers and gunslingers, scarcely exists in this myth-shattering history.  The real West was and continues to be a land of immigrants and of conflicting and melding cultures. . . . A substantial revision and update of standard history, this gripping, wonderfully accessible populist saga deserves a place on the shelf alongside the works of Howard Zinn, William Appleman Williams, and Ronald Takaki."  150 black & white illustrations.  Winner of the 2000 Western Heritage Award in the nonfiction category.  Winner of the 2001 Caughey Western History Association Prize.