How the West Was Drawn: Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West

by David Bernstein

Book Overview

How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a collaborative construction between Native peoples and Euro-American empires that developed cartographic processes and culturally specific maps, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496224922
• ISBN13: 9781496224927
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"