Lions of the West
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, NC
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 497
ISBN-13: 9781565126268
Copyright date: 2011
Description: Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.
Notes: "A Shannon Ravenel Book" - T.p.
Table of contents: title: Brief chronology of the westward expansion era; title: Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War; title: Prologue : The empire for liberty; title: Thomas Jefferson : seeing the elephant; title: Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend; title: John Chapman : apples and angels; title: David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death; title: Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance; title: James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary; title: Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain; title: Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific; title: Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice; title: Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent