Patricia Nelson Limerick

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Patricia Nelson Limerick is an American historian, considered to be one of the leading historians of the American West. Limerick was born and raised in Banning, California. She currently is chair of the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Limerick is known for her 1987 book The Legacy of Conquest, which is part of a body of historical writing sometimes known as the New Western History.

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  • The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1979. ISBN 0-393-30497-3 (1988 paperback).
  • Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-32102-9 (2001 paperback).


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