H. W. Brands

Dreams of El Dorado (eBook, ePUB)

A History of the American West

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West - from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond

"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." - Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder

In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He 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. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Basic Books
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781541672536
• Artikelnr.: 57013567

Autorenporträt

H. W. Brands holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty books, including two Pulitzer Prize finalists in biography. Recent titles include Dreams of El Dorado, Founding Partisans, and America First. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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