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Title: The OTHER Side of The American West
Review: They say this is the Anti-Turner Frontier Thesis book...The author pretty much states her hypothesis (anti-hypothesis?) from the beginning...And the rest of the book is support material....She does a good job at supporting her theory...It's pretty much what the title says..Conquest, and to an extent, exploitation...Shady land speculators, shady lawyers, shady mine owners, railroad barons, etc. Also the mistreatment of the native Americans and the Chinese...The book is very well researched...I guess if you read BOTH "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and this book..you have both bases covered..I have to admit..I lean a little more toward the "conquest"/capitalism side of the argument after reading this book....
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