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Power and Place in the North American West

By Richard White, John M. Findlay

Western historians continue to seek new ways of understanding the particular mixture of physical territory, human actions, outside influences, and unique expectations that has made the North American West what it is today. This collection...

Parallel Destinies

Canadian-American Relations West of the Rockies

By John M. Findlay and Ken S. Coates

The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even...

Atomic Frontier Days

Hanford and the American West

By John M. Findlay and Bruce W. Hevly

Outstanding Title by Choice Magazine

On the banks of the Pacific Northwest’s greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile...

The Atomic West

By Bruce W. Hevly, John M. Findlay

The Manhattan Project—the World War II race to produce an atomic bomb—transformed the entire country in myriad ways, but it did not affect each region equally. Acting on an enduring perception of the American West...