Patricia Nelson Limerick: 3 books
by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White
The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has...
by Richard White, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1994
Log cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White and Patricia Limerick...
A Ditch in Time
The City, the West and Water
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Tracing the origins and growth of the Denver Water Department, this study of water and its unique role and history in the West, as well as in the nation, raises questions about the complex relationship among cities, suburbs, and rural areas, allowing us to consider this precious resource and its past, present, and future with both optimism and realism.