Dream West
Title | Dream West PDF eBook |
Author | David Nevin |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2005-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765313980 |
Dream West is the New York Times bestselling fictional account of famed North America explorer John Charles Fremont, by David Nevin. Upon its release over twenty years ago, Dream West was deemed a classic novel of the American West by both critics and the reading public. Telling the amazing true story of America's famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, it quickly found its way onto the New York Times bestsellers list and adapted into a CBS mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain. Now available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Nevin's epic of adventure and discovery will once again give readers a chance to witness the passion of an early explorers dreams of the great unknown, and the love and perseverance that saw his dream come to life.
Dream West
Title | Dream West PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Brode |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 391 |
Release | 2013-08-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0292748280 |
"Overturns conventional thinking that the Western genre is essentially conservative. Instead, Brode demonstrates that Hollywood liberals used Westerns to espouse a progressive agenda on a range of issues, including gun control, environmental protection, respect for non-Christian belief systems, and community cohesion versus rugged individualism. Doug Brode takes a new look at dozens of Westerns, including Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Red River, 3:10 to Yuma (old and new), The Wild Ones, High Noon, My Darling Clementine, The Alamo, and No Country for Old Men"--
Dream West
Title | Dream West PDF eBook |
Author | David Nevin |
Publisher | Forge Books |
Pages | 907 |
Release | 2017-12-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 076539863X |
A fictionalized story of John Charles Fremont, and Jessie, the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, that embraces the stormiest and most adventurous half-century this country has ever known.
Westward the Dream (Ribbons West Book #1)
Title | Westward the Dream (Ribbons West Book #1) PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Pella |
Publisher | Bethany House |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2011-05-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1441232370 |
As the U.S. descends into the Civil War, photographer Brenton Baldwin travels west with his sister Jordana, taking pictures of the developing lands and in search of their sister. Along for the trip is young Caitlan O'Connor, who has just arrived from Ireland. Will they make it to California to find their family despite the danger that looms ahead? And can early romance grow into love in the face of trials and tragedy?
Dream West
Title | Dream West PDF eBook |
Author | David Nevin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 639 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780450060786 |
Upon its release over twenty years ago, Dream West was deemed a classic novel of the American West by both critics and the reading public. Telling the amazing true story of America's famed explorer, John Charles Fremont, and his beloved supporter and muse, Jessie Benton, it quickly found its way onto the New York Times bestsellers list and adapted into a CBS mini-series starring Richard Chamberlain. Now available for the first time ever in trade paperback, Nevin's epic of adventure and discovery will once again give readers a chance to witness the passion of an early explorers dreams of the great unknown, and the love and perserverance that saw his dream come to life.
It Began with a Dream
Title | It Began with a Dream PDF eBook |
Author | marvin jackson |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2020-05 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578676388 |
Memoir of the life of Dr. Gladys B. West, a black woman who played an integral role in the development of the GPS.
West of Slavery
Title | West of Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Waite |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469663201 |
When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through diplomacy, migration, and armed conquest. By the late 1850s, slaveholders and their allies had transformed the southwestern quarter of the nation – California, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of Utah – into a political client of the plantation states. Across this vast swath of the map, white southerners defended the institution of African American chattel slavery as well as systems of Native American bondage. This surprising history uncovers the Old South in unexpected places, far beyond the region's cotton fields and sugar plantations. Slaveholders' western ambitions culminated in a coast-to-coast crisis of the Union. By 1861, the rebellion in the South inspired a series of separatist movements in the Far West. Even after the collapse of the Confederacy, the threads connecting South and West held, undermining the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevin Waite brings to light what contemporaries recognized but historians have described only in part: The struggle over slavery played out on a transcontinental stage.