... and foreign people, religion facilitated imperial pathways for migrants to travel along to the American West. This article is part of a special issue of Pacific Historical Review , “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West.” © 2023 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2023...

...Quincy D. Newell Thinking about religion in the American West helps us understand more fully both religion and the American West. Beyond that, by putting these terms together and thinking about “religion in the American West,” we are able to see clearly the role of religion in the extension of U.S...

... to particular religious practices and traditions, but also to the dynamics of religion-making or, in other words, to the social processes that configure “religion” and shape assumptions, both popular and scholarly, about where it can be found and how it operates. This essay is the introduction to a special...

... U.S. politics for over a decade and continues to resonate today. This article is part of a special issue of Pacific Historical Review , “Religion in the Nineteenth-Century American West.” Rutherford B. Hayes religion westward expansion education history Native American history anti-Catholicism...

... American history Meeker Massacre religion BRANDI DENISON Dirt and Morality during Ute Removal ABSTRACT The bloody confrontation between Utes and the U.S. Cavalry at the Colorado Ute Indian Agency in 1879 was a significant chapter in U.S. history. The government and Colorado citizens used this battle...