The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive
Wallis (history, California State Polytechnic U., Pomona) pursues her interest in the lives of women in the urban West by exploring women and work in her own home town during the half century when it
Avella (religion, American life, and the American West; Marquette U., Wisconsin) describes the place of Catholicism in the capital of California from its origin as a gold rush town about 1850 to 2000.
