According to Victor, 'Manifest destiny seemed to have raised him up, together with many others, bold, hardy, and fearless men, to become sentinels on the outposts of civilization.' Meek and his brethren duly emerged as 'the hardy ...
An introduction to the history of the American West which offers a new, more balanced approach to viewing the Western past, covering the key themes and debates in Western history as well as competing academic discourses.
Blakely , whose Comanche Dawn was a finalist for the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West , is a well - known composer and performer of western music . He is also a former president of the Western Writers of America .
Stories of the American west from the oft-overlooked perspective of Native Americans, women, Hispanics, Asians, and Mormons place traditional genre elements of gunplay and gold strikes in a realistic context.
Using excerpts from diaries, and letters to songs, speeches and legal documents for the study of Indians, pioneers and settlers this book is intended to serve as a resource for the learning of interpretive and investigative historical ...