Burns jeffrey scott (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. A vivid and comprehensive journey through the turbulent history of the American West, from the arrival of the first Europeans well into the twentieth century. This "Illustrated History" by Geoffrey C. Ward, presented as a companion to the acclaimed Ken Burns documentary series, draws upon hundreds of letters, diaries, memoirs, and journals, alongside the latest scholarship. The book chronicles the arrival of wave after wave of newcomers - explorers, soldiers, Indian warriors, settlers, railroad builders, and showmen - each investing the harsh but majestic western landscape with their own myths, desires, and dreams. The cast is as rich and diverse as the western landscape itself, featuring figures like Coronado, Custer, Jesse James, Chief Joseph, Brigham Young, and Buffalo Bill, alongside scores of lesser-known but equally compelling westerners: a Chinese ditch-digger, a wealthy Mexican landowner, a forty-niner from Chile, a British-born Texas cowboy, a missionary woman who loathed the West, and a Wellesley graduate who loved it despite its hardships. "The West" explores the tensions between whites and native peoples, encompasses the Hispanic experience from conquistadors to the transformation of Los Angeles, delves into the lives of Chinese immigrants who sought "Gold Mountain," and details the ordeals of freed slaves homesteading on the Great Plains. Featuring insightful essays by distinguished historians and writers including Dayton Duncan, John Mack Faragher, David G. Gutierrez, Julie Roy Jeffrey, Patricia Nelson Limerick, N. Scott Momaday, T. H. Watkins, and Richard White. Hardcover in Very Good condition, lacking a dust jacket.…