From all points: America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952

Immigrant stories from the West

The draw of the late-nineteenth-century West

Where in the West were they?

Targets of racism : Chinese and others on the mainland and Hawaiʻi

The Scandinavians and step migration

The German presence

Proximity of homeland : the Mexicans

In the year 1903

Foreshadowing twentieth-century patterns

Immigrant stories and the West in the 1900s

Who came?

The Dillingham commission and the West

The continuing evolution of immigration and naturalization issues and policies (Asians)

Miners, merchants, and entrepreneurs : Europeans compete with Europeans (Greeks and others)

Land, labor, and immigrant communities : Hawaiʻi and the mainland (Asians, Portuguese, Armenians, and Scandinavians)

Newcomers, old and new (Italians, Basques, French, and Mexicans)

The First World War and Americanization

State and federal laws and decisions, 1917-1920

The early 1920s : threshold of momentous changes

A world of peoples : the 1920s and 1930s

Demographic trends : a changing West and changing Westerners

Institutionalizing the quota system : 1924

Divided yet interlinked : the rural West

Filipinos : the newer immigrant wave bridging the rural and urban West

Divided yet interlinked : the urban West in the interwar years

Urban landscapes and ethnic encounters

From "reoccupation" to repatriation : Mexicans in the Southwest between the wars

Darker turns during the interwar years : workers and refugees

Aliens and race issues on the eve of the Second World War

Interwar or interlude? twilight and dawn in the West

Voices from America on the eve of war

War : against all those of Japanese descent

The Second World War's other enemy aliens : Italians and Germans

The homefront in wartime : preface to an era of change

Wartime and postwar agricultural issues : land, labor, growers, and unions

Immigrants and ethnics in the postwar years

The Cold War heats up : the politics of immigration, 1950-1952

Dora and the harbinger of coming events

Looking back on America's immigrant West.