Forgotten Founders (ePub)
Rethinking the History of the Old West
(Sprache: Englisch)
In The Forgotten Founders, Stewart Udall draws on his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlemwere the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to...
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In The Forgotten Founders, Stewart Udall draws on his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlemwere the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement.Stewart Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a "e;wild west"e; has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Stewart Udall substitutes a compelling description of an Old West, the West before the arrival of the railroads, which was the home place for those he calls the "e;wagon people,"e; the men and women who came, camped, settled, and stayed. He offers a portrait of the West not as a governmcreation or a corporate colony or a Hollywood set for feckless gold seekers and gun fighters but as primarily a land where brave and hardy people came to make a new life with their families. From Native Americans to Franciscan friars to Mormon pioneers, these were the true settlers, whose goals, according to Stewart Udall were "e;amity not conquest; stability, not strife; conservation, not waste; restraint, not aggression."e; The Forgotten Founders offers a provocative new look at one of the mimportant chapters of American history, rescuing the Old West and its pioneers from the margins of history where latter-day mythmakers have dumped them. For anyone interested in the authentic history of the American West, it is an important and exciting new work.
Autoren-Porträt von Stewart L. Udall
Stewart L. Udall was elected to four terms as congressman from Arizona before being appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be secretary of the interior, a position he held for eight years during the administrations of President Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is author of six books, including the best-selling The Quiet Crisis (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963), To the Inland Empire (Doubleday, 1987) and The Myths of August (Pantheon, 1994).
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Stewart L. Udall
- 2012, Englisch
- Verlag: Island Press
- ISBN-10: 1610910702
- ISBN-13: 9781610910705
- Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2012
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