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THE WEST SERIES
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table of contents
  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

THE WEST SERIES

Series Editor: George Colpitts

ISSN 1922-6519 (Print) ISSN 1925-587X (Online)

This series focuses on creative nonfiction that explores our sense of place in the West – how we define ourselves as Westerners and what impact we have on the world around us. Essays, biographies, memoirs, and insights into Western Canadian life and experience are highlighted.

No. 1 Looking Back: Canadian Women’s Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History, and Identity S. Leigh Matthews

No. 2 Catch the Gleam: Mount Royal, From College to University, 1910–2009 Donald N. Baker

No. 3 Always an Adventure: An Autobiography Hugh A. Dempsey

No. 4 Promoters, Planters, and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada Cornelius J. Jaenen

No. 5 Happyland: A History of the “Dirty Thirties” in Saskatchewan, 1914–1937 Curtis R. McManus

No. 6 My Name Is Lola Lola Rozsa, as told to and written by Susie Sparks

No. 7 The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister’s Virginian and the Canadian-American Frontier John Jennings

No. 8 Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre Edited by Donna Coates

No. 9 Finding Directions West: Readings That Locate and Dislocate Western Canada’s Past Edited by George Colpitts and Heather Devine

No. 10 Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity Edited by George Melnyk and Donna Coates

No. 11 Ranching Women in Southern Alberta Rachel Herbert

No. 12 Rocking P Ranch and the Second Cattle Frontier in Western Canada Clay Chattaway and Warren Elofson

No. 13 The American Western in Canadian Literature Joel Deshaye

No. 14 Thresholds, Walls, and Bridges: Journeys Through the Borderlands of History Elizabeth Jameson

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