Review of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History.

Authors

Peter Iverson, Arizona State UniversityFollow

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 11:4 (Fall 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

"This is a little book about a big subject," wrote Gerald Nash in his introduction to The American West in the Twentieth Century (1973). Thanks to Michael Malone and Richard Etulain, we now have a second book on the same subject. The century is more advanced, but their volume is no bigger. Yet within the limits of a relatively brief text, the authors have provided us with an impressive survey of the region.