Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone - 9127

€œGeorge Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet€™s most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you€™ll never think of our first€”in many ways our greatest€”nationalpark in the same way again.€€”Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney Doane, a gifted but tormented cavalryman known as "the man who invented Won
ASIN: 0312383193
VSKU: PKV.0312383193.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Black, George
Binding: Hardcover