Lions of the West : heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Robert, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States.

Territorial expansion.

West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.

West (U.S.).

Pioneers--United States--Biography.

Pioneers.

Pioneers--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Presidents--United States--Biography.

Presidents.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 497 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Summary:

Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.

Contents:

Brief chronology of the westward expansion era

Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War

Prologue : the empire for liberty

Thomas Jefferson : he sees the elephant

Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend

John Chapman : apples and angels

David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death

Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance

James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary

Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain

Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific

Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice

Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent.

Notes:

"A Shannon Ravenel Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781565126268

1565126262

OCLC:

712124022