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Empire of Shadows

Empire of Shadows

Name: Empire of Shadows
ISBN: 9780312383190

George Black

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Documents the exploration of an uninhabited Yellowstone region after the Civil War, evaluating the roles of key contributors while covering the pioneer era, the American Indian Wars, and efforts to "civilize" the frontier.

Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a gifted but tormented cavalryman known as "the man who invented Wonderland"; the ambitious...

Năm:

2012

Nhà xuát bản:

Macmillan

Ngôn ngữ:

english

Trang:

561

ISBN 10:

0312383193

ISBN 13:

9780312383190