Bibliograph

Dreams of El Dorado, a history of the American West, H.W. Brands

Type

Label

Dreams of El Dorado, a history of the American West, H.W. Brands

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dreams of El Dorado

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1057730722

Responsibility statement

H.W. Brands

Sub title

a history of the American West

Summary

Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush

Table Of Contents

Part I. Napoleon's gift -- Part II. A skin for a skin -- Part III. Gone to Texas -- Part IV. The great migration -- Part V. The world in a nugget of gold -- Part VI. Steel rails and sharps rifles -- Part VII. The middle border -- Part VIII. The cowboy in the White House

Target audience

adult

Classification