The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography

by William Wyckoff and Lary M. Dilsaver

Book Overview

Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the experiences of settlers) from the east. As pioneers struggled with the climate west of the hundredth meridian, they were also confronted by mountains strewn across the region and offering their own set of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803297599
• ISBN13: 9780803297593
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"