From All Points: America's Immigrant West, 1870s-1952

A history of immigrants in the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their effect on the region.
At a time when immigration policy is the subject of heated debate, this book makes clear that the true wealth of America is in the diversity of its peoples. By the end of the twentieth century, the American West was home to nearly half of America's immigrant population, including Asians and Armenians, Germans and Greeks, Mexicans, Italians, Swedes, Basques, and others. Thi...