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title	:	"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" : A History of the American West
author	:	White, Richard.
publisher	:	University of Oklahoma Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0806125675
print isbn13	:	9780806125671
ebook isbn13	:	9780585146171
language	:	English
subject	West (U.S.)--History.
publication date	:	1991
lcc	:	F591.W69 1991eb
ddc	:	978
subject	:	West (U.S.)--History.

Page i "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own"

Page ii As I was a-walking one morning for pleasure, I spied a cow-puncher a-riding along; His hat was throwed back and his spurs were a-jinglin', As he approached me a-singin' this song: Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies, It's your misfortune and none of my own; Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies, For you know Wyoming will be your new home. From "Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Git Along, Little Dogies," in John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax, comps., Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads (New York: Macmillan, 1948)

Page iii "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own" A New History of the American West by Richard White UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN

Page iv By Richard White Land Use, Environment, and Social Change: The Shaping of Island County, Washington (Seattle, 1980) The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos (Lincoln, Nebr., 1983) "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West (Norman, 1991) The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815 (New York, 1991) Published with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency which supports the study of such fields as history, philosophy, literature, and language. White, Richard, 1947 "It's your misfortune and none of my own": a history of the American West / by Richard White. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes index. 1. West (U.S.)History. I. Title. F591. W69 1991 978dc2091-50309 ISBN: 0-8061-2366-4 (cloth)CIP ISBN: 0-8061-2567-5 (paper) The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources, Inc. Copyright 1991 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First paperback printing, 1993. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Page v To Vernon Carstensen Who taught me to think deeply about the West while always distrusting deep thinkers

Page vii CONTENTS Figures ix Maps xiii Tables xv Acknowledgments xvii Part One The Origins of the West 1 1. The Seeds of the West 5 2. Empires and Indians 27 Part Two The Federal Government and the Nineteenth-Century West 55 3. The Conquest of the West 61 4. The Federal Government and the Indians 85 5. Exploring the Land 119 6. Distributing the Land 137 7. Territorial Government 155 Part Three Transformation and Development 179 8. The Transformation of Western Society: Migration 183 9. Transforming the Land 212 10. The West and the World Economy 236 11. The Economic Structure of the West 270 12. New Communities and the Western Social Order 298

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