Dreams of El Dorado. A History of the American West, Paperback - H. W. Brands

A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times-bestselling author sets a new standard for histories of the American WestIllustrations: 24 Ha...

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Reducere. For the past nine years, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has been tweeting the history of the United States. But this has been no ordinary version...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): H. W. BrandsIllustration(s): 8 PP of colour photographsNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning narrative of the American Revolution that shows...

From master storyteller and New York Times bestselling Historian H. W. Brands comes the definitive biography of a visionary and transformative pres...

Reducere. Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man'...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes Fawcett's accounts of his own expeditions *Profiles all the theories surrounding the expedition's disappear...

Reducere. Pulitzer Prize Finalist Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly...

Reducere. Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best r...

Reducere. Immediately recognized as a revelatory and enormously controversial book since its first publication in 1971, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is univ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas's journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic ...

Reducere. American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she...

Reducere. The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.

Reducere. In the style of Barry Lopez, Annie Dillard, and Eula Biss, Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environme...

From the acclaimed historian and bestselling author: a page-turning account of the epic struggle over slavery as embodied by John Brown and Abraham...

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes a dramatic narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the Bri...

Reducere. After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay w...

Reducere. Features twenty-one of the West's gun-slinging bad girls, from serial killer Kate Bender to Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hange...

Reducere. A comprehensive account of the rise and fall of one of the major shapers of American foreign policyOn the eve of his inauguration as President, Woo...

Reducere. The elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and th...

A magnificent history of the American conquest of the West; "a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Revi...

Reducere. Mustang is the sweeping story of the wild horse in the culture, history, and popular imagination of the American West. It follows the wild horse ac...

Reducere. The Rise of the West, winner of the National Book Award for history in 1964, is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNei...

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Reducere. The valuable interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker with Indian eyewitnesses to the Wounded Knee massacre, the Little Big Horn battle...

DescriptionWhat ever happened to the legend of El Dorado, the tale of the mythical city of gold lost in the Amazon jungle? Charlotte Rogers argues ...

Reducere. The enduring image evoked by the American West is one of grand physical and historical romance, spectacle, and drama. Many generations of historian...

DescriptionSince taking up photography in the mid-1960s, Robert Adams (born 1937) has quietly become one of the most influential chroniclers of the...

Reducere. A revealing look at the intersection of wealth, philanthropy, and conservation Billionaire Wilderness takes you inside the exclusive world of the u...

Reducere. Tells the story of the African American soldiers known as the Buffalo Soldiers, who fought against American Indians and protected the Western Front...

Reducere. Frontier photographer L. A. Huffman (1854 - 1931) captured the spirit of the American West like no other artist. As comfortable photographing the h...

Reducere. Crazy Woman Creek is a collection of prose and poetry about real women in the West and their connection to a larger whole. Long troubled by the mis...

Reducere. In 1924 eight young women drove across the American West in two Model T Fords. In nine weeks they traveled more than nine thousand unpaved miles on...

Reducere. In 1904 Field and Stream sent Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939) to the Rockies and the Southwest. In The Frank Tenney Johnson Book (Doubleday, 1974)...