Lions of the West heroes and villains of the westward expansion

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

Record details

ISBN: 9781616201197 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1616201193 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xxiii, 497 p.) : ill., maps.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

General Note:	"A Shannon Ravenel Book."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.