Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781616201890 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xxiii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, 2012.
- Copyright: ©2011
Content descriptions
General Note: | "A Shannon Ravenel Book." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 461-467) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Brief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : seeing the elephant -- Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend -- John Chapman : apples and angels -- David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death -- Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance -- James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary -- Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain -- Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific -- Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice -- Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent. |
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Subject: | United States > Territorial expansion. West (U.S.) > History > To 1848. Pioneers > United States > Biography. Pioneers > West (U.S.) > Biography. Presidents > United States > Biography. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Grant County Library | 973 MORGAN (Text) | 37845000461645 | Adult Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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