Elliott West
Autor de The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado
Sobre El Autor
Elliott West is Alumni Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of Arkansas.
Créditos de la imagen: University of Arkansas
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Obras de Elliott West
Essays on Walter Prescott Webb 1 copia
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- Nombre canónico
- West, Elliott
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1945-04-19
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Ocupaciones
- Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Arkansas
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- University of Arkansas
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- #38,228
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- 4.0
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- ISBNs
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My one major criticism is that the summing-up section “Creating the West” at the very end is tediously repetitious. If you have the strength to skip the final section of a book, you might want to skip the final section of this one.
Some minor criticisms:
1) On page 11, it says that Panama City (Panama) is “9 degrees north of the equator, 21 degrees closer than Boston and 16 closer than even New Orleans”. Actually, it is 33 degrees closer than Boston and 21 degrees closer than New Orleans.
2) On page 11, it says: “In 1849 about five thousand persons followed the Gila River route to Santa Fe and then across the southwestern deserts to Southern California”. But for westward travelers, the Gila River was a way out of Santa Fe, not a way in.
3) On page 43, there is an unnecessarily lengthy argument that 2-dimensional growth is more powerful than 1-dimensional growth, that is then followed by the statement that a certain quantity grows “by more than nine and a half times, from 640 to 2276 acres.” (It should be three and a half.)
4) As important of a book as this one deserved better proofreading. As an example, a sentence on page 72 ends with the clause “but even before the Civil War it clear that the disposal of much of for farming.”
5) On page 198, we read: “Even correcting for lively exaggeration, there seems something like a compulsive inflation of mayhem and dissipation that would be repeated over and again by visitors to the new country.” This seems to be saying that even correcting for lively exaggeration, there was lively exaggeration!… (más)