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(0)Bernard DeVoto
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English
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This book tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the Western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the Southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri, for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes in 1948, and The Course of Empire, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 1953. DeVoto's...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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“This book is the fascinating record of DeVoto's crusade to save the West from itself...His arguments, insights, and passion are as relevant and urgent today as they were when he first put them on paper."—Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., from the Foreword
Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955) was, according to the novelist Wallace Stegner, “a fighter for public causes, for conservation of our natural resources, for freedom of the press and freedom
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