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The West
An Illustrated History
Geoffrey C. Ward
With a prevace by Stephen Ives and Ken Burns
Dimensions: 1.5 x 9.5 x 11.5 inches
Illustrated
Hardbound: 445 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
1996
The companion volume to the stunning PBS television series, and an encore the acclaimed bestsellers
The Civil War and Baseball. In a vivid narrative that begins with the arrival of the first Europeans
and ends well into the twentieth century, author Geoffrey C. Ward provides a gripping journey through
the turbulent history of the region that has come to symbolize America around the world. Drawing upon
hundreds of letters, diaries, memoirs, and journals as well as the latest scholarship, and vividly
illustrated with over 400 photographs, many of them never before published, The West: An Illustrated
History chronicles the arrival of wave after wave of newcomers from every direction of the compass,
each of which invested the harsh but majestic western landscape with its own myths and desires and dreams.
It is the central story of America, a story filled with heroism and hope, enterprise and adventure as
well as tragedy and disappointment. It explores the tensions between whites and the native peoples that
they sought to displace, but it also encompasses the Hispanic experience in the West, from the time of
the conquistadors to the transformation of a Mexican-American village called Los Angeles into the
region's major metropolis; the lives of Chinese immigrants who called the region "Gold Mountain";
and the ordeals of freed slaves from the South who sought a better life homesteading on the Great
Plains. This book is as sprawling, vast, and rich as the history and land it describes.
Book has been gently read, the inside pages are clean and bright with light wear and minor liquid marks to it's cover.
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