How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America by Carl Abbott

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

Histories of the American Frontier

Carl Abbott

347 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as s...

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