HST-330 The Frontier and the American West

GER: WR (Writing-Research Intensive)
Prerequisite: one history course numbered between 100 and 166
Examination of the American West in history and popular cultural. Topics include Anglo-American exploration and migration, Native-American culture and resistance, myths of the gunfighter and the Old West, and debates on “Manifest Destiny” and the meaning of the frontier in American history. 4 credits.