Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xiii
5. 1. Railroads West 1
6. 2. Western Conquest: The War against Native America 15
7. 3. The Unwelcome 39
8. 4. The Rise of the Western Metropolis 49
9. 5. Populism: The Politics of Protest 67
10. 6. Labor Unrest in the West 89
11. 7. Los Angeles Comes of Age 113
12. 8. World War I and the West 121
13. 9. Progressives, Progressivism, and the American West 139
14. 10. The 1920s: Prohibition and the West 161
15. 11. The Great Depression: The New Deal and the Western Landscape 179
16. 12. Domestic Turmoil and Intolerance in a Time of War 203
17. 13. The Cold War and the Atomic West 223
18. 14. Generation and Other Gaps 243
19. 15. The West’s Vietnam 263
20. 16. Immigration Roils the West 277
21. 17. Environmental Challenges and Environmental Imperatives 299
22. Index 319