Story of the great American West
Recounts the settlement of the West from the first pioneers who crossed the Appalachians to the eventual disappearance of the frontier.
| Format: | Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Pleasantville, N.Y. :
Reader's Digest Association,
[1977]
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| Physical Description: |
384 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Coming of the Europeans
- West beckons
- To the Mississippi and beyond
- Of mountain men and Indians
- Texas and the great southwest
- From sea to sea
- Great rush west
- Wars in the west
- Rails transform the nation
- Cowboys and cattle kings
- Settling the plains
- West comes of age.