Revisionists' Bible Many of these themes make up the contents of a book generally recognized as the fullest expression of the new history: Ms. Limerick's "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West."

Limerick, Patricia Nelson, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West N.Y.: W.W. Norton, 1987.

The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

The Turner Thesis was also critiqued by Patricia Nelson Limerick in her 1987 book, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West.

TELEVISION VIEW Patricia Nelson Limerick is the author of "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West."

Although Ms. Limerick, the author of "The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West," is not totally comfortable with this near-universal acceptance of the frontier, she is aware of its extraordinary power as a cultural myth.