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vi | figure 1. Boise’s railroad network. 6 figure 2. Fresno panorama in 1901. 7 figure 3. All roads lead to Casper. 15 figure 4. the urban West in 1830. 16 figure 5. Sitka, Alaska, in the 1860s. 19 figure 6. Los Angeles in 1847. 26 figure 7. the urban West in 1930. 30 figure 8. Portland, oregon, impersonating new York in 1929. 36 figure 9. Fort Worth impersonating Chicago in the 1930s. 37 figure 10. Gateway cities. 43 figure 11. omaha in 1868. 44 figure 12. Winnipeg downtown. 47 figure 13. omaha downtown. 51 figure 14. Pacific cities. 57 figure 15. San Francisco panorama in the 1870s. 61 figure 16. Port townsend, Washington, panorama. 63 figure 17. West Coast Chinatown. 66 figure 18. San Diego imagined in 1915. 71 figure 19. Lewis and Clark exposition of 1905. 72 figure 20. temple Square, Salt Lake City. 77 figure 21. Railroads and inland capitals in 1901. 86 figure 22. Greeley panorama. 91 figure 23. Grand Junction downtown. 93 figure 24. irrigation cities. 98 figure 25. Virginia City, nevada, panorama. 101 figure 26. Butte after the boom years. 105 figure 27. Victor, Colorado, during the Cripple Creek Strike. 107 figure 28. industrial cities to 1940. 113 figure 29. tourist cities to 1940. 117 figure 30. Colorado Springs in the 1920s. 121 figure 31. Columbia River scenic highway, 1915. 124 figure 32. Santa Barbara County Courthouse. 127 figure 33. empress Hotel, Victoria, British Columbia. 129 List of figures vii list of fiGUres | figure 34. Working-class housing in Denver. 137 figure 35. Middle-class housing in Denver. 139 figure 36. Middle-class housing in Grand Junction. 140 figure 37. Armstrong Parkway, Dallas. 146 figure 38. omaha park scene. 147 figure 39. Bonneville Dam. 160 figure 40. the urban West in 2000–2001. 162 figure 41. Calgary skyline. 165 figure 42. Las Vegas Strip. 167 figure 43. Portland, oregon, shipyard. 173 figure 44. War worker housing. 175 figure 45. Map of World War ii migration to San Francisco. 176 figure 46. the atomic West. 180 figure 47. Larimer Street, Denver, in 1937. 193 figure 48. Larimer Street, Denver, and urban renewal. 194 figure 49. Coors Field and the new downtown Denver. 195 figure 50. War boom housing in Los Angeles. 222 figure 51. Westchester, California. 223 figure 52. Lions’ Gate Bridge, Vancouver. 232 figure 53. Phoenix urban village plan. 233 figure 54. el Paso. 245 figure 55. Petroleum cities. 249 figure 56. Port of Vancouver. 252 figure 57. Worldport L.A. 253 figure 58. Dallas, Fort Worth, and the world. 254 figure 59. Dallas skyline. 254 figure 60. Missoula. 263 figure 61. Greater texas and Greater California. 268 figure 62. Vancouver skyline. 276 figure 63. Seattle monorail and Space needle. 279 figure 64. Watts towers. 281 figure 65. the older West: Portland, oregon, in 1889. 288 figure 66. the newer West: Winnipeg circa 1990. 289 ...

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