Frontiers: A Short History of the American West Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press

Jan 12, 2008 - The story of the American West has exerted a powerful influence over the psyche of the modern world, helping to fashion senses of national identity as well as permeating literary and cinematic culture. €In the With the help of the Transcontinental Railroad opened in 1869, civilization swallowed up the last of the American frontier by 1890, just 25 short years after the end of the war. Like a Woody Allen rant 14028 U.S. He is the author of The A Spiritual Frontier Opens for Business. By Daniel Bornstein The Council of Constance (1414-1418) dealt with the Great Western Schism, which since 1378 had divided the Catholic Church between two (and after 1409, three) competing popes. Feb 25, 2013 - A Brief History of Papal Resignations. 18 hours ago - Playing Albert Stark, a nebbishy sheep farmer on the 1882 frontier, MacFarlane is gunning for our collective mythos of the unsullied West. Oct 2, 2013 - “Firearms were such an important part of the history of the American West, so they have always been featured quite prominently within the museum,” says Jeffrey Richardson, the curator of the new “Western Frontiers: Stories of Fact and Fiction” exhibition, which opened July 27, 2013. He is the vice-president of the American Catholic Historical Association, and will assume the presidency in 2014. In the same way, behind the scenes, I found Mormons who wanted quick, militaristic solutions to Indian problems, and other Mormons who liked them and were very interested in them. Dec 31, 2013 - He cites many of the important works of the “New Western History,” the historiographical movement that re-envisioned the West from the perspective of the victims of Euro-American conquest, rather than from the viewpoint of westering whites who brought “civilization” to the region.