The Essential West: Collected Essays

by Elliott West

Book Overview

Drawing from the past three centuries, West weaves the western story into that of the nation and the world beyond, from Kansas and Montana to Haiti, Africa, and the court of Louis XV.

Divided into three sections, the volume begins with conquest. West is not the first historian to write about Lewis and Clark, but he is the first to contrast their expedition with Mungo Park's contemporaneous journey in Africa. "The Lewis and Clark expedition,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806146532
• ISBN13: 9780806146539
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"