The Course of Empire - Softcover

DeVoto, Bernard Augustine

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ISBN 10: 080326559X ISBN 13: 9780803265592

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1983

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Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

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About the Author:

Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.

Synopsis:

Describes the dreams, courage, and frustrations of the men who explored and conquered the American wilderness.

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