Bøger af Robert G. Athearn

Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. This text documents his contribution to the expansion and settlement of the Western frontier, including his phase of ensuring the tranquility of the West.

In late 1819 Colonel Henry Atkinson led an expedition to explore the wilderness of the Upper Missouri and establish sites for a string of military posts, which would extend successful contacts with the Indians as well as exploit trade with British companies. This book brings to life one of the exciting eras in American history.

"It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."—Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book Review

A portrait of the recent West: its booms and busts, its enormous rearrangements of population, its endless search for a settled identity, and its chronic tension over wanting outside help and resisting outside control.

Gives an account of the famous narrow-gauge Denver and Rio Grande as it inched its way south, then turned west into the Rockies. By 1883 it had joined with the Rio Grande Western to become Colorado's only line across the mountains. This title features twelve maps and fifty-five illustrations to help tell the story.