Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westard Expansion
Robert Morgan, "Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westard Expansion"
2011 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 1565126262 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
2011 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 1565126262 | EPUB | 3,6 mb
From Thomas Jefferson€™s birth in 1743 to the California Gold rush in 1849, America€™s Manifest destiny comes to life in Robert Morgan€™s skilled hands. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the continent from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John €œJohnny Appleseed€ Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. Their tenacity was matched only by that of their enemies€”the Mexican army under Santa Anna at the Alamo, the Comanche and Apache Indians, and the forbidding geography itself.
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