Introduction : a theory for Western vernacular architecture / Thomas Carter -- False-front architecture on Montana's urban frontier / Kingston Heath -- Folk design in Utah architecture, 1849 1890 / Thomas Carter -- The Calef's farm in Oregon : a Vermont vernacular comes west / Philip Dole -- Dry Creek : central Nevada's Damele ranch / Blanton Owen -- When a room is the hall : the houses of west Las Vegas, New Mexico / Chris Wilson -- Russian churches, American houses, Aleut people : converging cultures in the Pribilof Islands, Alaska / Alison K. Hoagland -- Chinatown of Gold Mountain : the Chinese in Locke, California / Christopher L. Yip -- Keeping house : women, domesticity, and the use of domestic space in nineteenth-century Nevada / Margaret Purser -- The real estate associates : a land and housing developer of the 1870s in San Francisco / Anne Bloomfield -- Innovation without paradigm : the many creators of the drive-in market / Richard Longstreth -- The historic industrial landscape of Butte and Anaconda, Montana / Fredric L. Quivik -- American modernism in the west : Hoover Dam / Richard Guy Wilson.
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