The American West
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Overview
The American West centers on three subjects: Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers. Dee Brown re-creates these groups struggles for their place in this new landscape and illuminates the history of the old West in a single volume, filled with maps and vintage photographs. In his spirited telling of this national saga, Brown demonstrates once again his abilities as a master storyteller and as an entertaining popular historian.
The author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and one of America's best-known historians, Brown presents a brilliant account of the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade, and the waves of immigrants who ultimately settled in the West. 50 black-and-white photos.
Synopsis
The American West centers on three subjects: Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers. Dee Brown re-creates these groups struggles for their place in this new landscape and illuminates the history of the old West in a single volume, filled with maps and vintage photographs. In his spirited telling of this national saga, Brown demonstrates once again his abilities as a master storyteller and as an entertaining popular historian.
Los Angeles Times - Larry Watson
Wondrous.
Editorials
From the Publisher
Richard Slotkin Author of Gunfighter Nation Dee Brown's The American West is popular history at its best: well and vividly written, with a clear and sympathetic eye for both the landscape and human characters of the ranchers, settlers and Indians of the West.
Larry Watson
Wondrous.—Los Angeles Times
Allen Boyer
With unerring eye and unflinching irony, Brown shows how history, myths and business work hand in hand…as loaded with nuggets of the stream bed at Sutter's mill.—The New York Times Book Review