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  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Thresholds: 2000–2002
    1. 1. Where Have All the Young Men Gone? The Social Legacy of the California Gold Rush
    2. 2. Guns to Butter: Reconceiving the American West
    3. 3. The Heart of Gold: Working-Class Voices from the Cripple Creek Gold Mining District
  6. Borders: Walls and Bridges: 2003–2007
    1. 4. Telling Differences: The 49th Parallel, the West, and the Histories of Two Nations
    2. 5. Dancing on the Rim, Tiptoeing through the Minefields: Challenges and Promises of the Borderlands
    3. 6. God, Santa, and the American Way: The U.S. Alaska Reindeer Project
  7. Bridging: 2008–2011
    1. 7. Race in America: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Kerner Commission Report
    2. 8. Remembering Ludlow: The 1913–1914 Coal Strike and the Politics of Public Memory
    3. 9. Women Who Crossed a Line: Canadian Single Women Homesteaders in the U.S. West
  8. Bridges: Blocked, Crossed, and Under Construction: 2012–2014
    1. 10. Are We There Yet? Personal and Historical Reflections on Women in Higher Education
    2. 11. Seneca Falls, Selma, and Stonewall: Symbolism and Social Change
    3. 12. “Use My Broken Heart”: Making Change Out of Tragedy
  9. Approaching the Next Threshold: 2015–2017
    1. 13. Halfway Across That Line: Gender at the Threshold of History in the North American Wests
    2. 14. Torches Passed and Present
  10. Coda
  11. Epilogue: The Times They Are a-Changin’
  12. Index

Coda

2024

In August 2024 I went on a road trip from Calgary to Albuquerque with my son Daniel, daughter-in-law Barbara, grandsons Stanley and Spencer, and many stuffed animals. Our trek south reversed the route Daniel and I had driven to Calgary a quarter century earlier. Along the way we stopped at the Ludlow Massacre site, and I got to tell my grandsons what had happened there and show my family the plaque designating Ludlow as a National Historic Landmark. In Albuquerque, we showed the boys their dad’s elementary and junior high schools, and the houses where he’d lived. We had a wonderful visit with my brother Phil and sister-in-law Marjorie, who provided major support during our years in Albuquerque.

Then, on August 17, 2024, another hot Albuquerque summer morning, I hugged Phil and Marjorie goodbye, climbed into an overloaded SUV with Daniel, Barbara, Stanley, and Spencer (but thankfully no cats), and drove north toward home.

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