Power & Place in the North American West

by Virginia Scharff

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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295977736
• ISBN13: 9780295977737
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"