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The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American WestÂ
*** "The definitive popular history of the American West." The Wall Street Journal ***
The epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new nation. Over time a darker story emerged -- one of ghastly violence and environmental spoliation that stained this identity.
The Undiscovered Country strips away the layers of myth to reveal the true story of this first epoch of American history. From the forests of Pennsylvania and Kentucky to the snow-crested California Sierras, and from the harsh deserts of the Southwest to the buffalo range of the Great Plains, Paul Andrew Hutton masterfully chronicles a story that defined America and its people. From Braddock's 1755 defeat to the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, unfolds a grand narrative steeped in romantic impulses and tragic consequences.
Seven Main Protagonists: Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull and William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
The seven main protagonists are the biographical thread that weaves the narrative together across four generations. These may be familiar names, yet few know the truth behind their incredible life stories. In some cases their lives interrelate, but in all cases they carry forward the epic tale of this first epoch of American history.
These seven larger-than-life figures were central to the creation of a national myth of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that became part of the identitiy of a new nation. At the same time some of them became symbols of heroic resistance. For each of them, save Cody, the "Winning of the West" proved a hollow victory indeed. But the legendary construct that exploited their adventures - both real and imagined - proved irresistable to Americans (no matter where they came from) as well as other peoples around the world.
Daniel Boone, with the migration up the Cumberland Gap and the Revolutionary War; Red Eagle, the Creek leader who allied with Tecumseh to halt the American pioneers; Davy Crockett, who fought Red Eagle and came to symbolize the rise of the common man and the triumph of the New West as a political movement in Washington; Mangas Coloradas who united all the Apache bands against the white invaders and led his people in the great battle of Apache Pass, only to fall victim to American perfidy; Kit Carson leading America across the Santa Fe Trail, conquering California, fighting the Civil War in the West, and then reluctantly becoming the nation's most famous Indian fighter; Sitting Bull, rallying the final native resistance, culminating in both the great victory at Little Big Horn and the catastrophe at Wounded Knee; and Buffalo Bill Cody, who fought the final Indian Wars, before taking it all "on the road" with his celebrated Wild West show that entertained the world for a quarter century -- all contributed to the epic saga of the American West.
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"Hutton proves once again why he is a great writer as well as a great historian." — T.J. Stiles on The Apache Wars
"Paul Hutton is one the great scholars of Western Americana, but he's also a natural born storyteller."
— Hampton Sides on The Apache Wars
The Apache Wars: The Hunt for Geronimo, the Apache Kid and the Captive Boy Who Started the Longest War in American History
They called him Mickey Free. His kidnapping started the longest war in American history. A mixed blood warrior who moved uneasily between the worlds of the Apaches and the White invaders, he was distrusted by both but desperately needed by each. It was said that he was the only man Geronimo ever feared. A fellow scout described him simply as "half-Irish, half-Mexican, and all son-of-a-bitch." This is his story, and the story of his contemporaries--Apache, American, and Mexican--who fought the last great battle for the American West.