The world of the American West [electronic resource] / edited by Gordon Morris Bakken.

Simultaneously published in the UK--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The physical geography of the West / by Robert Spude -- The flora and the fauna / by Kurt Russo -- The Native West before 1700 / by Gregory E. Smoak -- Hosts and horses : envirocultural effects of contact in the Amerindian West / by K.D. Motes -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition / by Robert Carriker -- Continued exploration of the American West : the fur trade, map makers, path markers / by William R. Swagerty -- The earlier, wilder image : early artists of the American West / by Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf -- The borderlands of the United States West / by Sheila McManus -- California transformed : organizing a new society, 1848-1869 / by Peter Blodgett -- The urbanization of the American West : the processes and people in the rise of instant cities and their evolution into the twenty-first century / by Brent Rogers, Jr. -- The hydraulic West : the history of irrigation / by Charles R. Porter -- Leisure in the West / by Randal Fulkerson -- Learning in the West : Western women and the culture of education / by Andrea Radke -- Defense industries / by Susan Tschabrun -- The rise of Western women to national stature in the early twentieth century / by Shannon D. Smith -- American politics move west / by Gordon M. Bakken -- Government and law in the American West / by Aaron Wilson -- Region of extremes and contrast / by Alicia Dewey -- American Indians in the twentieth century / by Lisa E. Emmerich -- Leadership or dominance : the role of the Western U.S. economy in the world / by Neil Greenwood.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.