Introduction : How to Make the West Modern -- Demarcating, 1898-1910. Man and Nature ; The Changing Meaning of Crossing Lines ; Being American in Boley, Oklahoma -- Agitating, 1910-21. Revolution and Revolutionaries ; Women and Their Alliances ; Global Conflict and Local Strife -- Speculating, 1920-29. Oil ; Land ; Speculating on the West Imagined -- Mobilizing, 1928-40. Demobilizing ; Mobilizing the New Deal ; Moving People and Animals to Save the People and the Land -- Conclusion : Making a Modern West
Summary
This book surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region - the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders
