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THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, PAST & PRESENT
The following list of books provides some possible starting places for exploring various aspects of the American West, both historical and current. More books about the American frontier and the westward expansion can be found shelved in the non-fiction section under the 978s. Further information about Native Americans can be found in the non-fiction section under the 970s. If you need help finding any of these books please ask the reference librarians for assistance.
The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers & Cowboys, 1800-1899 — William C. Davis (978.02 DAV)
The American West — Dee Alexander Brown (978 BRO)
America's Western Frontiers; the Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West — John Arkas Hawgood (978.02 HAW)
Bad Land: An American Romance — Jonathan Raban (978 RAB)
Biting the Dust: The Wild Ride and Dark Romance of the Rodeo Cowboy and the American West — Dirk Johnson (791.84 JOH)
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Negro Cavalry in the West — William Leckie (357.1097 LEC)
Cowgirls: Women of the American West — Teresa Jordan (978 JOR)
Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men — Leonard Crow Dog (970.004 CRO)
The Frontier in American Culture: An Exhibition at the Newberry Library — Richard White (978.02 WHI)
The Frontier in American History — Frederick J. Turner (973 TUR)
Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 — Julie Roy Jeffrey (978.02 JEF)
Historical Atlas of the American West — Warren A. Beck (911.78 BEC)
History of the Westward Movement — Frederick Merk (973 MER)
The Negro Cowboys — Philip Durham (978 DUR)
The Portable Western Reader — (810.08 POR)
Riding Astride: The Frontier in Women's History — Patricia Dunlap (978.02 DUN)
Settling the West — (978.02 SET)
A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West, 1800 to the Present — Ted Morgan (978 MOR)
Story of the Great American West — (978 REA)
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West — Stephen Ambrose (978.042 AMB)
The West: An American Experience — David Phillips (978 PHI)
The West: An Illustrated History — Geoffrey Ward (978 WAR)
Women of the West — Cathy Luchetti (305.42 LUC)(BT 10/97)
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