''America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West'' (released in the

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as ''The American West'') is a book which chronicles the history of the American West from the

Pre-Columbian era In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, ...

through the mid-twentieth century. It was written by John A. Hawgood, a professor of history at the

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in England, whose speciality was the history of the American west. The book was first published by

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in 1967. ''America's Western Frontiers'' won the

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's Alfred A. Knopf Western History Prize for this book in 1966. The book also received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Western Heritage Award for non-fiction books in 1968.

Editions

* New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1967. LoC 66-19380.

References

1967 non-fiction books History books about the American Old West {{OldWest-book-stub