Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West

by Carlos A. Schwantes

Book Overview

In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295976918
• ISBN13: 9780295976914
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 10.8" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Great Book on History

The book has a great variety of historical pictures. You get the real flavor of the old west. You understand how many settlers earned their money and how they settled in the old west. It is a beautifully crafted large book. The book is nicely bound and features heavy glossy pages