How did the landscape itself shape ideas about the West? What were those ideas, and how did they change over time? How did colonization efforts shape each period? How did Native societies respond to colonization efforts in each period?Explain
HIS 340 The American West as both place and idea—a landscape as well as a complex and often contradictory process. It is the product of the pursuit of wealth but also of the search for the unknown, of imperial ambition and conquest but also the mixing of diverse groups of peoples, of brutality and genocide, […]