The Forgotten Founders by Stewart L Udall
For most Americans, the Wild West popularized in movies and pulp novels - a land of intrepid traders and explorers, warlike natives, and trigger-happy gunslingers - has become the true history of the region. The story of the West's development is a singular chapter of history, but not, according to former Secretary of the Interior and native westerner Stewart L. Udall, for the reasons filmmakers and novelists would have us believe. In The Forgotten Founders, Udall draws on extensive research and his vast knowledge of and experience in the American West to make a compelling case that the key players in western settlement were the sturdy families who travelled great distances across forbidding terrain to establish communities there. He offers an illuminating and wide-ranging overview of western history and those who have written about it, challenging conventional wisdom on subjects ranging from Manifest Destiny to the importance of Eastern capitalists to the role of religion in westward settlement. Udall argues that the overblown and ahistorical emphasis on a wild west has warped our sense of the past. For the mythical Wild West, Udall substitutes a compelling description of an O
"The West is so cluttered with misconceptions that it is hard to have a serious discussion about its history" - Wallace Stegner
Stewart L. Udall was elected to four terms as congressman from Arizona before being appointed by President John F. Kennedy to be secretary of the interior, a position he held for eight years during the administrations of President Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson. He is author of six books, including the bestselling The Quiet Crisis (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1963), To the Inland Empire (Doubleday, 1987) and The Myths of August (Pantheon, 1994).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781559638937 |
| ISBN 10 | 1559638931 |
| Title | The Forgotten Founders |
| Author | Stewart L Udall |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Island Press |
| Year published | 2002-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Reading the West (Nonfiction) 2003 |
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