Dreams of El Dorado : a history of the American West
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Honeoye Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
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xvi, 524 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Brands, H. W. (2019). Dreams of El Dorado: a history of the American West (First edition.). Basic Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brands, H. W. 2019. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West. New York: Basic Books.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Brands, H. W. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West New York: Basic Books, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Brands, H. W. Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West First edition., Basic Books, 2019.

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