About the Author

Derek R. Everett is an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University of Denver and Colorado State University and author of The Colorado State Capitol: History, Politics, Preservation.

Reviews

With Derek Everett as our guide, what might seem one of the simplest acts of creating the West-defining its states by drawing lines on the map-becomes a revelation into the many crosscurrents-political, social, ethnic, economic, and, let's face it, idiosyncratic-that shaped the emergence of a distinctive American region. Creating the American West is also a reminder of how the lines we draw have always both divided and united us."" - Elliott West author of The Essential West: Collected Essays