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Ill-Fated Frontier

Peril and Possibilities in the Early American West
  • ISBN-13: 9781493044610
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: LYONS PRESS
  • By Samuel Forman
  • Price: AUD $54.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/06/2021
  • Format: Hardback 240 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: General studies [GTG]
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What happened in between-a cautionary tale of greed, incompetence, and hubris-lies at the center of this fascinating account by Harvard historian Samuel A. Forman. Endorsed by New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick, it is a startling and frank portrait of a young America that examines the dream of an inclusive American experience and its reality-a debate that continues today. Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American frontier in 1879.
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