Cities in the 19th Century American West

• F.J. Turner, ‘The Significance of the Frontier in American History’, Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, (1893) - https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/empire/text1/turner.pdf
• M. Schwarzer, Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption (2021)
• W. Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of its Mexican Past (2004)
• J.M. Kim, Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865-1941 (2019)
• N.P. Whitman, The Saloon on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier (1996)
• G.P. Barth, City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth Century America (1980)

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