"A grand narrative of the American West, revealing how daring American impulses and heroic vision collided with the dark reality of frontier violence and exploitation to shape a new nation. The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, sacrifice, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to mold the identity of a new people. Over time a darker story emerged--one of ghastly violence and environmental spoliation, which stained this identity. The Undiscovered Country strips away the layers of myth to present the true story of this first epoch of American history. From the forests of Pennsylvania and Kentucky to the snow-crested California Sierras, and from the harsh deserts of the Southwest to the buffalo range of the Great Plains, Paul Andrew Hutton ... chronicles a story that defined America and its people-- Provided by publisher.
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