"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--
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The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events that shaped the Rocky Mountains and Southern Plains. They trapped beaver, navigated the Santa Fe Trail, intermarried with powerful …
"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--
"Blood in the Borderlands traces the story of the Bent family from the fur trade days of the 1820s to the death of William Bent in 1869, exploring how one family lived and negotiated within shifting economic and political alliances among multinational and multiracial interests"--
William Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of southern California's history. Mulholland, a self-taught engineer, was the chief architect of the Owens Valley Aqueduct--a project ranking in magnitude and daring with the Panama C…
"In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah, the greatest Comanche chief of them all. S.C. Gwynne's Empire of …
Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate reality behind the homesteade…
The author travels through the towns the settlers left behind in their race to the West, sifting through the ruins of their farms and schoolhouses and speaking with their scattered descendants.
Jonathan Raban ambles and picks his way across the Montana prairie, called "The Great American Desert" until Congress offered 320-acre tracts of barren land to immigrants with stardust in their eyes. Raban's prose makes love to the waves of land, red dirt roads, and skeletons of…
"In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants that has yet to come to a real conclusion. A century later - 1951 - and about a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting of…
In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later--in 1951--and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called…