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Dreams of El Dorado - A History of the American West (Paperback)
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Dreams of El Dorado - A History of the American West (Paperback)
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In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic
story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark's
expedition in the early 19th century to the closing of the frontier
by the early 20th. He introduces us to explorers, mountain men,
cowboys, missionaries and soldiers, taking us from John Jacob
Astor's fur trading campaign in Oregon to the Texas Revolution,
from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush.
Throughout, Brands explores the contradictions of the West and
explodes its longstanding myths. The West has been celebrated as
the proving ground of American individualism; in reality, the West
depended on collective action and federal largesse more than any
other region. The West brought out the finest and the basest in
those who ventured there, evoking both selfless heroism and
unspeakable violence. Visons of great wealth drew generations of
Americans westward, but El Dorado was never more elusive than in
the West. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of
El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.
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