Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860

ISBN: 0062225154

Author: Hyde, Anne F.

Condition: New

Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.-Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly ReviewNot only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.-Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American HistoryPulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize-historical writings 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.