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Genre/Form: | Dictionaries Reference sources encyclopedias Reference works Encyclopedias History Encyclopédies Ouvrages de référence Dictionnaires anglais |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Roberts Lamar |
ISBN: | 0300070888 9780300070880 |
OCLC Number: | 38580099 |
Notes: | Revised edition of: The Reader's encyclopedia of the American West. 1st ed. c1977. |
Awards: | National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for nonfiction, 1999. |
Description: | xv, 1324 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Contains histories of places and events; biographies of notable persons in American western history; descriptions of American western geography and places; a chronology or timeline of the American west; a complete list of contributors; and illustrations credits. |
Other Titles: | Reader's encyclopedia of the American West. |
Responsibility: | edited by Howard R. Lamar. |
Abstract:
This encyclopedia is a source of information on the many American Wests - real and imaginary, old and new, stretching from coast to coast and throughout the country's history and culture. It consists of more than 2400 entries in alphabetical order, along with over 600 illustrations and maps.
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