Description
"Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of western] history. A book to ponder and plunder."
--Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly Review
"Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing."
--Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize--historical writing's most prestigious award--Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde--author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and co-author (with William Deverell) of The West in the History of the Nation--tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant "wilderness" to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.
Author: Anne F. Hyde
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 10/02/2012
Pages: 656
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780062225153
ISBN10: 0062225154
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | 19th Century
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
About the Author
Anne F. Hyde is a professor of history at Colorado College. She is the author of "An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture" and coauthor, with William Deverell, of "The West in the History of the Nation."