Book of the American West - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

The AMERICAN WEST is a tremendous subject-geographically, historically, sociologically. It has many facets, many phases, so many in fact that no one man could possibly be expert in all of them. To assure the depth and accuracy essential to a book of this scope, ten distinguished western authorities were invited to participate in its preparation, not as advisers or editors but as writers, each on his own specialty. Their combined knowledge and perspective have brought together in a masterful narrative the most magnificent array of historical fact, legend and lore about the West ever assembled in one volume. Free of the sentimentalizing and exaggeration that have too often distorted the true picture, a thousand images, chronicles, tales born in the fever of westward expansion come alive in these pages. from the arrival of the first splendid conquistador to the admission of the last territories to statehood, here is the OLD WEST as it really was - the momentous events, the bitter wars, the men and women who explored, opened and won an enormous, diverse wilderness.

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