Top Results for American West

William Cronon is an American environmental historian whose work connects ecological change with economic development, land use, and social relations. His 1983 book Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England examines how Indigenous peoples and European colonists altered...

Donald Worster is an American environmental historian whose scholarship examines water, agriculture, ecology, and the history of the American West. His 1979 book Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s explains the disaster through the interaction of severe drought, farming practices, land use,...

"Grand Canyon" is a color woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hiroshi Yoshida, created in 1925 as part of his broader series of North American landscapes. As a leading figure in the shin-hanga (new prints) movement, Yoshida merged traditional Japanese printing techniques with Western elements of...

Solnits lyrical and insightful memoir chronicles her journey through the American West as a modern nomad, grappling with loss, economic precarity, and the search for meaning in a world increasingly defined by impermanence. It offers a poignant reflection on freedom, community, and the human need for...

Patricia Limerick is an American historian whose work focuses on the history of the American West, including questions of conquest, race, environment, and relations between different communities. Her 1987 book The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West challenged accounts that tr...

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden was a 19th-century American cartographer renowned for his geological surveys of the Western United States. His detailed mapping, especially of Yellowstone National Park, provided invaluable scientific data and significantly influenced conservation efforts. Hayden’s work pr...

Kerwin Lee Klein is an American historian and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship examines the history of the American West, the interpretation of historical evidence, and the ways communities use cultural memory to construct accounts of place and identity. His work...

Flashman and the Redskins is a 1982 historical novel by George MacDonald Fraser, forming part of the Flashman Papers series. It chronicles the adventures of the cowardly antihero Sir Harry Flashman as he navigates the 19th-century American frontier. The narrative is split into two distinct periods,...

John C. Frémont was an American military officer, explorer, and politician known for his significant role in the westward expansion of the United States. Between 1842 and the early 1850s, he led five major expeditions to map the American West, including the Oregon Trail and the Great Basin, earning...

Gouverneur Kemble Warren (1830-1882) was a United States Army officer and topographical engineer whose pre-Civil War survey work contributed to the mapping of the American West. His 1857 map synthesized information from numerous expeditions and surveys into a broad representation of the trans-Missis...

John Charles Frémont (1813-1890) was an American explorer, military officer, politician, and cartographer associated with the westward expansion of the United States. During the 1840s, he led several government-sponsored expeditions whose reports and maps documented routes across the Rocky Mountains...