West of the Revolution
Subtitle: an uncommon history of 1776
By: Claudio Saunt
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780393240207
Subjects: Description and travel; Indians of North America; Europeans; Colonization; Spanish; Colonies; Discovery and exploration; History
Description: Details the other revolutions during 1776, including the reaction of the native residents of San Francisco in the wake of the first European settlement there and the devastation of the Aleutian Islands by the Russians' hunt for sea otters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-259) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The Russians are coming. Soft gold : Aleuts and Russians in Alaska ; A war for independence : the San Diego uprising ; First contact : colonizing San Francisco ; Across the Colorado Plateau; title: Part II: The continental divide. A forest transformed : the Hudson's Bay Company and Cumberland House ; The discovery : the Black Hills and the Lakota nation ; An invasion of malefactors : Osage Country ; Surrounded : the Deep South interior.