Bibliograph

Dreams of El Dorado, a history of the American West, H. W. Brands

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Dreams of El Dorado, a history of the American West, H. W. Brands

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-506) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreams of El Dorado

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057730722

Responsibility statement

H. W. Brands

Sub title

a history of the American West

Summary

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 rushWhen Napoleon offered to sell French Louisiana, America was launched on a fateful and fraught journey west. Brands takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. Live in the west evoked both selfless heroism and unspeakable violence, against indigenous peoples and one another. It was soon evident that El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East-- adapted from jacket

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History of the American West

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