Description: Making a Modern U.S. West surveys the history of the U.S. West from 1898 to 1940, centering what is often relegated to the margins in histories of the region--the flows of people, capital, and ideas across borders.
Review Quotes: "Carefully avoiding monolithic generalizations of the West, Deutsch's attention to diverse peoples proclaims that competing visions for Western modernity were not just between insiders and outsiders, but ubiquitous within. . . . [Making a Modern U.S. West] provides a strong framework for other historians working in the era and region to build upon."--Brenden W. Rensink, Annals of Wyoming