"George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the
planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read "Empire of Shadows," and
you'll never think of our first--in many ways our
greatest--national
park in the same way again."--Hampton Sides, author of "Blood and
Thunder"""
"Empire of Shadows" is the epic story of the conquest of
Yellowstone, Wyoming, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and
shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical
reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts
Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven
strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of
the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts
its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its
mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a gifted but tormented
cavalryman known as "the man who invented Wonderland"; the
ambitious former vigilante leader Nathaniel Langford; scientist
Ferdinand Hayden, who brought photographer William Henry Jackson
and painter Thomas Moran to Yellowstone; and Gen. Phil Sheridan,
Civil War hero and architect of the Indian Wars, who finally
succeeded in having the new National Park placed under the
protection of the US Cavalry. George Blacks Empire of Shadows is a
groundbreaking historical account of the origins of Americas
majestic national landmark.
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