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How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America (Histories of the American Frontier Series) (Reprint Edition) by Carl Abbott Paperback, 357 Pages, Published 2010 ISBN-10: 0-8263-3313-3 / 0826333133 ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-3313-1 / 9780826333131 Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these |