The Old West: Day by Day is a unique historical reference that chronicles the peak years of westward expansion, from the first discovery of gold in California in 1848 to the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. During these years, Americans drove westward, spurred in part by their faith in "manifest destiny, " the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent - even if that meant Indian loss of life and land. Aided by the completion of the transcontinental railroad and other technological developments, the desire for a country stretching "from sea to shining sea" was realized by the end of the 19th century. More than 15,000 chronological entries document in meticulous detail the major historical events of this period of westward expansion as well as everyday occurrences that marked life in the Old West, from new gold discoveries, advances in transcontinental travel and racial skirmishes to the establishment of newspapers and journals. In a given month in the Old West, work begins on the Colorado Central and Pacific Railroad, the first school in Wyoming is dedicated in Cheyenne, Buffalo Bill Cody goes on a buffalo hunt, the Chinese Theater opens in San Francisco and a skirmish is reported in Arizona. The Old West condenses and organizes decades of history that would otherwise need to be laboriously searched in newspaper records and secondary sources. The Old West provides a broad and comprehensive overview of the more than four decades that comprised the days of the open frontier, a period that left an indelible mark on United States history and the American character. Ideal for students, researchers, historians, writers and history buffs who need historicalbackground and hard facts, The Old West belongs in any serious library collection on the West.
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The Old West, on a daily basis
This is a perfect book for readers of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Old West" who wish to dig a little deeper. There's an extensive prologue and epilogue, but the heart of the book is a day by day examination of events that transpired between the discovery of gold in California to the final "battle" of the Indian wars at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. There are over 15,000 event in the book. For the first time, you can get a whole picture of what was going on in the West at a given time. Railroad histories tell you nothing about what gunslingers were doing at the time. Outlaw histories leave out what famous Native Americans were doing. But in THE OLD WEST DAY BY DAY, you can see a simultaneous picture of the Old West at a give time, down to the year, the month, and the day.
Chronological entries document historical events of the peak years of westward expansion, from the first discovery of gold in California in 1848 to the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee.
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