Product Description

As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14566 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Matthew Engel, GUARDIAN
'A riveting and definitive history of the West by the man who transformed our understanding of it'

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
'With unerring eye and unflinching irony, Brown shows how history, myth and business worked hand in hand'

About the Author
Dee Brown is the author of the international bestseller BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. He spent the early years of his life in the lumber camps and oil fields of the American South West, and went on to write more than twenty books relating to American frontier history. He died in December 2002.

Customer Reviews

quick review of Dee Brown's "The American West"
A lot of the material about the Indian Wars overlaps with that in Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" but there is in addition interesting information about the cattle drives, cowboys, the colourful characters who lived and died in Abilene, Dodge City etc. I skipped quickly through the chapters on entertainments. Well worth reading but not in the same league as "Bury My Heart".

This bok is a excellent book and is very educational
This is a excellent and a first class book you can refer to it when you need some infomation about thr amercian west and can get it out of it. This book really helped me do my school project on the amercian west and made me understand and learn more about it. You would reccommand this book to anybody who is doing or is just wants do know about it. I am looking foward to any other book that Dee Brown writes about anything. Once again a supherb bok thanks a lot for you help.

The Wild West Comes to Life!
The audio set of Dee Brown's The American West brings to life the characters and personalities that made the wild west an exciting and at times dangerous place to live.

Although the book is very good there is nothing like listening to Mitchell Ryan's rich voice as he almost waxes rhapsodically about the adventures of Wild Bill Hickok or Big Nose Kate or Billy the Kid.