Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past

“If you prefer history served in a dozen fresh ways, get this book.” —Chicago Tribune The history of the American West is being transformed by exciting new ideas, new questions, new scholarship. For many years this field was dominated by popular images of the lone cowboy and the savage Indian, and by Frederick Jackson Turner's concept of the frontier as a steadily advancing source of democracy and social renewal. But now historians and even the merchants of popular culture are reshaping our...