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Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan. |
| Authors: | Morgan, Robert, 1944- |
| Call number: | 920.078 MOR |
| Publisher: | Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. |
| Publication date: | 2011. |
| Subject: |
Pioneers -- United States -- Biography.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography. Presidents -- United States -- Biography. United States -- Territorial expansion. West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848. |
| Title: | Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xxiii, 497 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: | Brief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : he sees 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. |
| Notes: | "A Shannon Ravenel Book." |
| Summary note: | Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781565126268 1565126262 |
| LCCN: | 2011023832 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1319264 |
| Bib No.: | 1319264 |
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