In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, an

John M. Findlay presents a historical overview of the American West between 1940 and 2000, arguing that during the years of U.S. mobilization for World War II a

To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipu

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