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Summary: | The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the new United States, promising not only land but prosperity for its citizens. But the West was not the virgin wilderness of common myth. America was a newcomer in a place already complicated by vying empires-Native and European. The author traces the network of multiethnic family associations which had formed the basis for the global fur trade for centuries.
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Item Description: | Originally published (hardback) in 2011 in Lincoln, Nebraska by the University of Nebraska Press, with subtitle variation, A history of the North American West, 1800-1860. |
Physical Description: | xv, 628 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm |
Awards: | Bancroft Prize, 2012 |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 563-596) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780062225153 0062225154 |