The American West - Hardcover

Brown, Dee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0025174215 ISBN 13: 9780025174214

Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

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Winfred Blevins "Author of "Dictionary of the American West" Dee Brown is a wonder. He has sustained a dazzling career in Western history for fifty years. He has worked a revolution without seeming radical. "The American West" will only make the rest of us shake our heads and mutter, "How does he do it?"

Reseña del editor

This is an account of America's most famous drama. By centring solely on three subjects - Native Americans, settlers and ranchers - the author recreates these groups' struggles for their place in this new landscape and illuminates the history of the old West. Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the wave of immigrants who ultimately "settled" the land. By turns heroic, tragic and even humorous, this work brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill Hickock and many others.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0025174215
• ISBN 13: 9780025174214
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 462
• Herausgeber: Schmitt Martin F.