The Winning of the West, Volume 2: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 / Edition 1

by Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel K. Richter

Overview

Volume two of Roosevelt's ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. In it he projected a sweeping drama, well-documented and filled with Americans fighting Indian confederacies north and south while dealing with the machinations of the British, French, and Spanish and their sympathizers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803289550
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	05/01/1995
Series:	Winning of the West Series , #2
Edition description:	Presidential Edition
Pages:	427
Product dimensions:	5.53(w) x 8.53(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Introducing this volume is Daniel K. Richter; associate professor of history at Dickinson College. He is the author of The Ordeal of the Longhouse: The Peoples of the Iroquois League in the Era of European Colonization.

Editorial Reviews

"The Winning of the West remains one of the greatest works of western history. . . . [It] reflects the character of its author. It is sometimes quirky and full of prejudices and blind spots, but it is cultivated and sweeping in its learning and encompassing in its judgments."—John Milton Cooper Jr.

John Milton Cooper Jr.

Originally published in 1894 prior to his presidency, this is Roosevelt's sweeping saga of the settling of the West, from the Lewis and Clark expedition to the statehood of Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. Though not an unbiased historian, Roosevelt tells an exciting tale.

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