Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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William Cronon
William Cronon
1991 • 592 pages

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Argues that the American frontier and city developed together by focusing on Chicago and tracing its roots from Native American habitation to its transformation by white settlement and development

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