TY - BOOK AU - Brands,H.W. TI - Dreams of El Dorado: a history of the American West SN - 9781541672529 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Basic Books, Hachette Book Group KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - United States KW - West (U.S.) KW - Discovery and exploration KW - History KW - Territorial expansion N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-506) and index N2 - Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush ER -