Stewart L. Udall “The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking The History Of The Old West ”
Island Press | 2002-09-01 | ISBN:1559638931 | PDF | 208 pages | 1,9 Mb
“The West is so cluttered with misconceptions that it is hard to have a serious discussion about its history.” - Wallace Stegner.
For most Americans, the “Wild West” popularized in movies and pulp novels - a land of intrepid traders and explorers, warlike natives, and trigger-happy gunslingers - has become the true history of the region. The story of the West’s development is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to former Secretary of the Interior and native westerner Stewart L. Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe.