Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860

<p>&quot;Ingenious. A magnificent scholarly achievement. A sweeping new narrative account of [western] history. A book to ponder and plunder.&quot;<br> - Virginia Scharff, Western Quarterly Review</p><p>&quot;Not only well researched and presented but instantly absorbing.&quot;<br> - Adrienne Caughfield, Journal of American History<br> <br>Pulitzer Prize nominee and winner of the Bancroft Prize - historical writing's most prestigious award - Empires, Nations, and Families is an epic work of American History that fills in the blanks on the map of the American West between 1800 and 1860. Historian Anne F. Hyde - author of An American Vision: Far Western Landscape and National Culture and co-author (with William Deverell) of The West in the History of the Nation - tells a riveting true story of Native Americans, entrepreneurs, fur trappers and fur traders in a vibrant &quot;wilderness&quot; to which Daniel Boone himself was a Johnny-come-lately.<br></p>