The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West [VINTAGE 2002] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

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As new condition brown boards, maroon cloth spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Foreword by David M. Emmons; Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes and Suggested Readings; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs and maps. "In The Forgotten Founders Stewart Udall enriches our understanding of the conquest of the West. His book is a valuable antidote to the Hollywoodization of the westward movement. And it is a stirring tribute to the plain men and women who worked together to build schools and churches and dams and irrigation canals, thereby laying the foundation for a democratic order." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. "In this important new book, former secretary of the interior Stewart Udall reminds us of a more realistic Old West than the violence-packed one that the popular media have continued to give us. Himself the son of Arizona pioneers, Udall has wrtten eloquently in behalf of the everyday pioneer settlers and their families who went west.and with hard work and small complaint did the difficult work of opening up the vast western country." - Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. "For half a century, Stewart Udall had been a leading innovator of land conservation in the West. With this great book, he asks us to shed the still-dominant myths of the Wild West that keep us from seeing these lands for what they are. He returns us to the deeper values of the region's communities that can guide us into honoring the uniqueness of the intermountain West and its culture." - Gary Nabhan. "For many people, the "Wild West" popularized in movies and pulp novels - a land of intrepid explorers and traders, warlike natives, greedy gold seekers, and trigger-happy gunslingers - has become the true history of the region. The story of the West's settlement is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to native westerner and former U.S. secretary of the interior Stewart Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe. In The Forgotten Founders, Udall draws on his extensive knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in early western development were instead the many families who established communities there, often traveling great distances and enduring bitter hardships to do so. He offers a fascinating and wide-ranging view of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Indian societies and Manifest Destiny to the importance of eastern capital and religion's role in westward settlement. Udall argues that the overblown attention given to a Wild West that was "won" distorts our sense of the past and undermines our sense of the present. It glosses over the values and accomplishments of the men and women of the pre-railroad age who came, camped, settled, and stayed. Native peoples, Franciscan friars, Mormon, Protestant, and Catholic pioneers - these and others like them were, in Udall's view, the true settlers, and their goals are as important today as they were centuries ago: "amity, not conquest; stability, not strife; conservation, not waste; restraint, not aggression." The Forgotten Founders offers a provocative look at an important era, rescuing the Old West and its pioneers from the margins of history where latter-day mythmakers have dumped them. For anyone interested in the authentic history of the American West, this is an important and exciting work." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

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Título

The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West [VINTAGE 2002] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Editor

Island Press / Shearwater Books, Washington, D.C.

Fecha de publicación

2002

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Ilustrador

Willson, Bridhid (jacket design); Denver Public Library Western History Collection (jacket photo)

Edición

1st Edition

Impresión

1st Printing

Estado

As New

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fine