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Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.

Summary:

Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781565126268
  • ISBN: 1565126262
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 497 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Shannon Ravenel Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Brief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : he sees the elephant -- Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend -- John Chapman : apples and angels -- David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death -- Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance -- James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary -- Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain -- Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific -- Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice -- Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent.
Subject:
Pioneers > United States > Biography.
Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
Genre:
Biographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Madison County Public Library.

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