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The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West Debris Flows are the oldest exposed rocksBy: Patricia Nelson Limerick The settling of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen,