Eyewitness to the Old West

Eyewitness to the Old West

EYEWITNESS TO THE OLD WEST PB

Richard Scott

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Editorial:
Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc
Año de edición:
2004
Materia
Historia de América
ISBN:
9781570984266
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A collection of over 150 vignettes from the journals and diaries of people who lived or traveled in the Old West, these accounts begin with the sixteenth-century collisions between the Spaniards and the Indians and conclude with Black Elk's mournful description of the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. Storytellers include explorers, missionaries, Indian leaders, a poet, an artist, and a future president.

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