Three Frontiers in the American West, 1850-1900 Utah Boise Willamette Valleys

Description: Three Frontiers in the American West, 1850-1900 Utah Boise Willamette Valleys______________________________ Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern Historyby Dean L. MayPublished by Cambridge University Press (1994) Condition:LIKE NEW 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket! The binding is tight and all 313 pages within are bright white with NO WRITING, UNDERLINING, HIGH-LIGHTING, RIPS, TEARS, BENDS OR FOLDS. The covers look perfect! The dust jacket is in near perfect condition, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled and packaged with care! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:This book is a study of the values and aspirations of the earliest agrarian settlers in the Far West and how they changed in the frontier setting. It compares rural people who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. Though all three were farming societies, they were remarkably different in values and aspirations. Willamette Valley settlers brought a traditional southern yeoman culture to the Pacific. Utah Valley settlers drew upon Mormon ideology in forming a highly communal society. Those settling the Boise Valley were individualistic, commercial, and acquisitive from the outset. The differences are evident in patterns of migration, of settling upon and using the land, and of their relation to those about them and to the broader society. The Oregon and Utah settlers tried, with differing degrees of success, to resist the modernizing trends represented by Idaho, but ultimately accommodated themselves to the exploitive and acquisitive values prevailing in the New West of the post - Civil War years. The author explores the reasons for Americans’ move away from a culture centering on family and kin and from attitudes that valued and protected the land, not for its commercial worth but as the base of support for future generations. The root of our present tendency to pursue individual pleasure and material well-being at the expense of communal and broader societal well-being is the issue that lies at the heart of this comparative study of three peoples who pioneered the American frontiers. Copyright © 2018-2024 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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