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Stephen E. Ambrose Jr. - Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis was the perfect choice. He endured incredible hardships and saw incre ... More
Score: 4.9 14 Reviews
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Alvin M. Josephy - The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. And at the center of this history - perhap ... More
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John S. Gray - Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed
"Gray challenges many time-honored beliefs about the battle . . . (and) brings in as much as possible the testimony of the Indian witnesses . . . which generations of historians have dismissed. . . . The contrasts in (this) book . . . reinstate the basic components of what still attracts the imagina ... More
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John Miller Morris - El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536-1860
This story of the legendary Llano Estacado from 1536 to 1860 informs our understanding of discovery and geography in the Southwest. El Llano Estacado is more than a good read: it is also a native son's meditation on the role of the imagination and myth in how we perceive this unique environment. Fro ... More
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Hal K. Rothman - Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West
The American West has always been seen as a land of opportunity, but tourism has transformed it into a land of opportunism. From Sun Valley to Santa Fe, towns all over the region have been turned over to outsiders -- not just those who visit, but those who control.
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J. Anthony Lukas - Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author weaves what may be his most brilliant narrative, dramatizing the class struggle of turn-of-the-century America as it frames a sensational 1905 murder case. 24-page photo insert.
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Elliott West - The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado Books
An account of the early settlement of the American West, written by a well-regarded historian of the period. West maintains that the California Gold Rush of 1848 provided the greatest impetus to growth in the region, spurring overland travel across the Great Plains and thereby opening it to settlers ... More
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Margaret Leslie Davis - Rivers in the Desert
Release Date: December 01, 1993
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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James Chisholm - South Pass, 1868 James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush: James Chisholm's Journal of the Wyoming Gold Rush
James Chisholm's journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, of torrential rain storms and night packing, of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, in business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, to ... More
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Paul Andrew Hutton - Phil Sheridan and His Army
Release Date: September 01, 1999
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Janet Lecompte - Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn: Society on the High Plains, 1832-1856
Release Date: March 01, 1999
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