Elliott West Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion

About the author:

Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, is a specialist in the social and environmental history of the American West and of western Native peoples. He is the author of eight books, and five of his books have won national awards, including the Francis Parkman and Bancroft prizes. He was one of three finalists for the Cherry Award for the outstanding classroom teacher in the nation.

About the book:

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion has two purposes: It describes the birth of the place we call the American West, roughly a third of the contiguous states, between our expansion to the Pacific in the 1840s to around 1880, and it argues that the birth of the West was crucial—as important as the Civil War—in the transformations that carried us into the 20th and 21st centuries. The West was both the child and the midwife of modern America, and only by appreciating its importance will we have a chance of truly understanding these critical years of our history.

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