Pulverdampf und Sternenbanner - Amerika erobert den Westen
Publisher: Verlag für Amerikanistik
Published: 2008
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9783895101175
Description: The chapters of this book describe decisive historic experiences which formed the American West and the American Nation, like the construction of the transcontinantal railroads, the Oregon Trail, the homesteaders, women at the western Frontier, the history of the cattle towns, of the goldrushes of California and Montana. The first chapters deals with the legendary Danial Boone and his key role by establishing settlements in the wilderness, and it ends with the Wild Bunch, the last western outlaw gang.