Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

A richly researched, evocative account of the individuals and institutions involved in the settling of the non-Indian West—and of the impact of the developmen

Boundaries—lines imposed on the landscape—shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the

The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversit

From deserts to ghost towns, from national forests to California bungalows, many of the features of the western American landscape are well known to residents a

To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its