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Robert G Athearn
Robert G. Athearn's biography of William Tecumseh Sherman provides a compelling account of the Civil War general's life and achievements. From his infamous march through Georgia to his role in…
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This is a new release of the original 1960 edition.
Robert G. Athearn
The first adequate history of the High Country Empire I have ever found…This is vivid, vigorous history, rich with incident, solid with research, firm with informed opinion…On total score this…
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In this engaging narrative, Robert G. Athearn presents a detailed account of British settlement in the American West. From the fur trade to the gold rush, Athearn explores the challenges…
In late 1819 Colonel Henry Atkinson led an expedition to explore the wilderness of the Upper Missouri and establish sites for a string of military posts, which would extend successful…
A portrait of the recent West: its booms and busts, its enormous rearrangements of population, its endless search for a settled identity, and its chronic tension over wanting outside help…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Gives an account of the famous narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande as it inched its way south, then turned west into the Rockies. By 1883 it had joined with the…
No one has done before what Athearn has done in this volume. He has utilized company records and a variety of other sources to write a very attractive and readable…
Tells the story of the Black migration from areas of the South to Kansas and other Midwestern and Western states that occurred soon after the end of Reconstruction. Working almost…
Duane A. Smith
Presents a study of Caribou, Colordao, a silver mining town.
Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. This text documents his contribution to the expansion and settlement…
Alfred Lacey Hough
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn…
