Empires, nations and families : a new history of the North American west, 1800-1860 / Anne F. Hyde.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Ecco Press, 2012.Edition: 1st ECCO paperback edDescription: xv, 628 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 0062225154 :
- 9780062225153 :
- A new history of the North American west, 1800-1860
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 978.02 H993 | Available | 33111007015924 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder."
--Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly Review
"Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing."
--Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize--historical writing's most prestigious award--Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde--author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and co-author (with William Deverell) of The West in the History of the Nation--tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant "wilderness" to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens.