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- SKU: 9780062225153
- UPC: 9780062225153
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Winner of the Bancroft Prize, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
In the vein of The Hemingses of Monticello and What Hath God Wrought, an epic American history that sheds new light on our understanding of the West and its development between 1800 and 1860, told through the lives of families from the Mississippi to the Pacific, Canada to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands
“Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.".”—Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly Review
“Hyde weaves her stories together to create a solid and provocative argument . . . not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.”—Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History
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