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Introduction Chapter 1 -The Physical Geography of the West by Robert Spude Chapter 2 -The Flora and the Fauna by Kurt Russo Chapter 3 - The Native West before 1700 by Gregory E. Smoak Chapter 4 - Hosts and Horses: Envirocultural Effects of Contact in the Amerindian West by K. D. Motes Chapter 5 - The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Robert Carriker Chapter 6 - Continued Exploration of the American West: The Fur Trade, Map Makers, Path Markers by William R. Swagerty Chapter 7 - The "Earlier, wilder image": Early artists of the American West by Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf Chapter 8 -The Borderlands of the United States West by Sheila McManus Chapter 9 - California Transformed: Organizing a New Society, 1848-1869 by Peter Blodgett Chapter 10 - 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 M. Rogers Chapter 11 -The Hydraulic West – The History of Irrigation by Charles R. Porter Chapter 12 - Leisure in the West by Randal Fulkerson Chapter 13 - Learning in the West: Western Women and the Culture of Education by Andrea G. Radke-Moss Chapter 14 - Defense Industries by Susan Tschabrun Chapter 15 - The Rise of Western Women to National Stature in the Early Twentieth Century by Shannon D. Smith Chapter 16 -American Politics Move West by Gordon Morris Bakken Chapter 17 - Government and Law in the American West by Aaron Wilson Chapter 18 - Region of Extremes and Contrast by Alicia Dewey Chapter 19 - American Indians in the Twentieth Century by Lisa E. Emmerich Chapter 20 - Leadership or Dominance: The Role of the Western U.S. Economy in the World by Neil Greenwood