Westward Expansion In Mrs. Limerick's Life

As Limerick was born in California, she her overall writing centers around the idea that Westward Expansion was a legacy, despite its detrimental factors. In her college years, she graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and Yale. Her forward thinking was most likely derived from Yale and her previous experience as a professor’s assistant at Harvard. She is chair of the Board of the Center of the American West and works at University of Colorado at Boulder. In her book, she primarily delves into social factors of the west, as well as dabbling on the economic and political additives. She depicts the social factors of the west to be somewhat unique, compared to America’s notorious past of a north versus south perspective. She may be biased, due to California’s extreme liberalism. For

Mrs. Limerick is also a white American woman, which brings into question the subject of her views of her writings on race. A primary example is how she dedicates chapter eight on racism, focusing on the Hispanics, Anglo-Americans, Pueblo Tribe, Papago Tribe and Apaches Tribe. In addition, she also discusses the type of people that moved west: English, French, Irish, Cornish, Scottish, German, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Greek, and Russian. Since she is white, one must question what she would write in her extensive chapter detailing how the west handled racism. Another example is how she thoroughly discusses Native Americans their persistence. Despite her recurring emphasis on Native Americans in her reading, one must also realize how subjective her writings would be towards the white population. One must not forsake that she is white, which may lead her to feel inclined to have pity towards Native Americans, black Americans, and those of Hispanic