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The New York Times bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee presents his first work of nonfiction in over a decade--a richly anecdotal and good-humored celebration of the American frontier. Drawing from over 50 years of research and travel, Brown details the joys, wonders, and hardships of the untamed frontier era. Index.
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Dee Brown, the bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, presents a richly anecdotal and good-humored celebration of the American frontier.
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In his first nonfiction work since Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , Brown turns his attention to the social and cultural history of the 19th-century West. Observing certain similarities between the emigrants and Chaucer's pilgrims, he notes that their rates of progress were about the same and that each group had representatives from the trades and professions. Brown describes some famous visitors to the West: grand duke Alexis Romanoff, on a buffalo hunt; Oscar Wilde, wearing a sunflower in his lapel; Horace Greeley. He examines the tall tale and practical jokes played on greenhorns and tenderfeet, noting that the young Teddy Roosevelt, recuperating from respiratory ailments, was the butt of many. Brown writes about frontier lawyers and courtroom theatrics, ministers, schoolteachers, doctors, newspapermen, gold seekers, women, soldiers, actors, cowboys in this vivid portrait of the diverse elements comprising the westward movement. Paperback rights to HarperCollins.
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- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0099153416
- ISBN 13 9780099153412
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