Author:
Stout, Harry S. author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintNew York : Basic Books, 2017.
Descriptionxix, 411 pages ; 25 cm
Note:Richard Clough Anderson, the Patriarch : 1750-1787 -- Measuring the land : 1787-1796 -- A new generation : 1797-1812 -- Richard the Sage : 1812-1817 -- "My debts must be paid!" :pPolitics and land in the evolving west : 1817-1822 -- An ill-fated mission : 1822-1824 -- A tragic end : 1824-1826 -- The new patriarch : 1826-1834 -- Rocky Mountain highs and real estate lows : 1835-1838 -- A time of testing : 1839-1844 -- Robert's Mexican war : 1844-1848 -- Andersons at home : 1848-1856 -- Times of trial : 1857-1861 -- Charles Anderson's civil war : 1862-1865 -- An ex-Confederate colony : 1865-1866 -- Andersons in transition : 1866-1870 -- Legacies : 1871-1888.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Documents how the Anderson family of eighteenth-century Kentucky worked to amass land while becoming apologists for slavery, Native American removal, and continental expansion.
