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181015s2019 nyua b 001 0deng |
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$a 2018048887 |
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$a9781541672529$q(hardcover) |
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$a319835$cTLC |
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$aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dGCG |
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$aF591$b.B814 2019 |
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$a978/.02$223 |
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$aBrands, H. W.$eauthor. |
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$aDreams of El Dorado :$ba history of the American West /$cH.W. Brands. |
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$aFirst edition. |
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$aNew York :$bBasic Books,$c2019. |
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$axvi, 524 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm |
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$atext$btxt$2rdacontent |
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$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. |
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$gPart I:$tNapoleon's gift.$tThe river at the heart of America --$tThe corps of discovery --$tWest by northwest --$tTo the pacific --$gPart II:$tA skin for a skin.$tAstoria --$tComcomly's dismay --$tThe white-headed eagle --$tMountain man --$tColter's run --$tUrsus horribilis --$gPart III:$tGone to Texas.$tMoses Austin's dying wish --$tTexas will be lost --$tRuin and redemption --$tVictory or death --$tBloody palm Sunday --$tLaying there yet --$gPart IV:$tThe great migration.$tThe four wise men --$tFemales wanted --$tTrapped out --$tWaiilatpu --$tFor God and country --$tThe way west --$tThe business of the trail --$tDesperate fury --$tAmbassador from Oregon --$gPart V:$tThe world in a nugget of gold.$tThe secret of the Sierra Nevada --$tGold mountain --$tCrime and punishment --$tThe spirit of '87 --$tTo be decently poor --$tWhere can we do? --$gPart VI:$tSteel rails and sharps rifles.$tStephen Douglas's brainstorm --$tNorth, south, west --$tFree soil --$tHell on wheels --$tSaints and sinners --$tOnce we were happy --$tThere would be no soldiers left --$tAdobe walls --$tLost river --$tTHe pride of young Joseph --$gPart VII:$tThe middle border.$tAbilene --$tHard lesson --$tInto the great unknown --$tThe arid region --$tMore life us --$tIt grew very cold --$tLess corn and more hell --$tBonanza --$tPart VIII:$tThe cowboy in the White House.$tRough riding --$tWest takes east --$tCashing in --$tJohn Muir's last stand --$tThe long, long trail. |
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$aBy the time he became president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson had been looking west for decades. He saw the country's population expanding and judged that America must expand too, lest the new nation become as crowded and conflict-prone as Europe. When Napoleon, to Jefferson's surprise, offered to sell French Louisiana to the United States, Jefferson leaped at the offer and launched America on a fateful and fraught journey west. In Dreams of El Dorado, H.W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's expedition in the early nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier by the early twentieth. He introduces us to explorers, mountain men, cowboys, missionaries, and soldiers, taking us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading campaign in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. Throughout, brands explores the contradictions of the West and explodes its longstanding myths. The West has been celebrated as the proving ground of American individualism; in reality, the West depended on collective action and federal largesse more than any other region. The West brought out the finest and the basest in those who ventured there, evoking both selfless heroism and unspeakable violence. Visions of great wealth drew generations of Americans westward, but El Dorado was never more elusive than in the West. --Dust jacket. |
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$aWest (U.S.)$xDiscovery and exploration. |
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$aWest (U.S.)$xHistory. |
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$aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion. |
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$aFrontier and pioneer life$zUnited states. |
