The American West - Softcover

Brown, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074349010X ISBN 13: 9780743490108

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2004

Synopsis

As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

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Review:

Michael Kammen

"Pulitzer Prize Winner, "New York Newsday"

A galloping, anecdotal narrative of the trans-Mississippi West from the Civil War to the turn of the century.

Allen Boyer

"The New York Times Book Review"

With unerring eye and unflinching irony, Brown shows how history, myth and business worked hand in hand...as loaded with nuggets as the stream bed at Sutter's Mill.

Richard Slotkin

"Author of "Gunfighter Nation"

Dee Brown's "The American West" is popular history at its best: well and vividly written, with a clear and sympathetic eye for both the landscape and human characters of the ranchers, settlers and Indians of the West.

Michael Kammen"Pulitzer Prize Winner, "New York Newsday"A galloping, anecdotal narrative of the trans-Mississippi West from the Civil War to the turn of the century.

Allen Boyer"The New York Times Book Review"With unerring eye and unflinching irony, Brown shows how history, myth and business worked hand in hand...as loaded with nuggets as the stream bed at Sutter's Mill.

Richard Slotkin"Author of "Gunfighter Nation"Dee Brown's "The American West" is popular history at its best: well and vividly written, with a clear and sympathetic eye for both the landscape and human characters of the ranchers, settlers and Indians of the West.

About the Author:

Dee Brown is the author of the international bestseller BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. He spent the early years of his life in the lumber camps and oil fields of the American South West, and went on to write more than twenty books relating to American frontier history. He died in December 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 074349010X
• ISBN 13: 9780743490108
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464