- ISBN: 9780028974958 | 0028974956
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/1/1996
Offering biographies, articles on the history of the entire range of Westward Expansion topics and overview entries on complex topics, the 4-vol. Encyclopedia examines events, organizations and social customs that shaped the American West. The alphabetically arranged entries, with more than 1,000 photographs, fully define in one source the concerns of the traditional West within the broader framework of social history.



