Browsing by Subject "American West"
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Becoming America's Ski City: Place and Identity on the Wasatch Front
(2018-12)“Becoming America’s Ski City” explores how skiers remolded the political, economic, cultural, and environmental landscape of Utah’s Wasatch Front, transforming the region’s valley cities and mountain forests into a more ... -
The Business of Atomic War: The Military-Industrial Complex and the American West
(2020)This dissertation examines nuclear weapons manufacturing in the American West from 1942 through the early 1990s. Specifically, it examines Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, Pantex in the Texas Panhandle, Rocky Flats ... -
"Expressing the Inexpressible": Art Posters, Graphic Modernism, and the American West, 1890–1925
(2020-05)The “art poster” movement swept the United States during the 1890s, generating enthusiasm and commentary for advertising posters designed by fine artists. While American art posters prompted much discussion in their time, ... -
Holding True: Agriculture in Colorado's Upper Grand Valley
(2015-07-31)This study presents the story of how farmers and agriculture survive in the upper Grand Valley, the eastern end of a 30-mile stretch of the Colorado River Valley—known as the Grand Valley—located on Colorado’s Western ... -
Indigenous-Settler Partnerships in the American West, 1875-1975
(2023-05-12)Between Reconstruction and the early Cold War, Indigenous communities in Oklahoma faced an existential crisis. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the United States applied intense pressure on Indigenous communities ... -
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ... -
A landscape in flux: many paths to modernity in eastern Iowa, 1780-1910
(2023-08-04)While its history is often forgotten, the Upper Mississippi River Valley Region, including eastern Iowa and western Illinois, has a multiracial, turbulent, and violent past. This dissertation will examine the history of ... -
A Martial Environment: The Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Ecological Change, 1942-2010
(2016)This thesis examines the military-industrial complex and ecological change in the American West during and after the Cold War. By specifically examining one munitions factory—the Rocky Mountain Arsenal—this thesis demonstrates ... -
West of Feminism: The Equal Rights Amendment Campaign in the American West, 1972-1982
(2021-05-14)In “West of Feminism: Gender, Religion, and the Politics of the Equal Rights Amendment Campaign in the American West, 1972-1982,” I argue that the battle to ratify the ERA was not carried out within organizations or through ...