Book description
The Americans who went West carved out the world’s greatest living folk-legend – the epic of the frontier. This was Manifest Destiny – that earthly ideal which drew river-boats up the Mississippi, wagon trains and railroads across the hostile Great Plains, and speculators to California in the gold frenzy of ’49. Following Daniel Boone through the Cumberland Gap, a trickle of rugged pioneers coursed into a flood of adventurers and settlers, searching for land, furs, gold and the Mormon kingdom of God on earth. From Crockett, Custer and Geronimo to Earp and the James Brothers, the frontier was won and ruled by the gun.
This panorama of the making of a continent is a graphic record of all the violence, treachery and heroism, the songs, arts, boasts and legends, of the bloody conquest of the West.
