History 4120    Spring 2004    MacKay

Week 12 Boom/Bust

Reading: The West, Chapters 1, 4, 5, 9, 14

Academic journal: Respond to the primary documents and the following text from the Center for the American West "Boom and Bust in the American West" http://www.centerwest.org/pdfs/BoomBust_text.pdf. What is your reaction to their suggestions for tempering the boom and bust cycle which characterizes the West as a region?

no class: April 7