Contents
1. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush
2. Guns to Butter: Reconceiving the American West
3. The Heart of Gold: Working-Class Voices from the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District
Borders: Walls and Bridges: 2003–2007
4. Telling Differences: The 49th Parallel, the West, and the Histories of Two Nations (with Jeremy Mouat)
5. Dancing on the Rim, Tiptoeing Through the Minefields: Challenges and Promises of the Borderlands
6. God, Santa, and the American Way: The U.S. Alaska Reindeer Project
7. Race in America: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report
8. Remembering Ludlow: The 1913–1914 Coal Strike and the Politics of Public Memory
9. Women Who Crossed a Line: Canadian Single Women Homesteaders in the U.S. West
Bridges: Blocked, Crossed, and Under Construction: 2012–2014
10. Are We There Yet? Personal and Historical Reflections on Women in Higher Education
11. Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall: Symbolism and Social Change
12. “Use My Broken Heart”: Making Change Out of Tragedy
Approaching the Next Threshold: 2015–2017
13. Halfway Across That Line: Gender at the Threshold of History in the North American Wests
14. Torches Passed and Present