Six Bridges Book Festival

Elliott West

Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, is a specialist in the social and environmental history of the American West and of western Native peoples.

Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion describes the birth of the place we call the American West, roughly a third of the contiguous states, between our expansion to the Pacific in the 1840s to around 1880.

Moderator: Thomas A. DeBlack

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