History–with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West.

With a storyteller’s voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin’s Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America’s greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if you’re negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California–all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.