Empire of Shadows The Epic Story of Yellowstone

Name: Empire of Shadows The Epic Story of Yellowstone
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ISBN: 9780312383190

ISBN-10: 0312383193

ISBN-13: 9780312383190

Edition: 2012

Authors: George Black

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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 Wonderland"; the ambitious former vigilante leader Nathaniel Langford; scientist Ferdinand…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 3/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 560
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue: The View from Mount Washburn



Pathfinders



"A Knoledge of These People" 1805-1806



The Terrible Pahkees 1806



All for a Beaver Hat 1807-1810



The Big Knives 1811-1840



Bridger's Fort 1840-1850



Fakelore 1851



Man Picking Up Stones Running 1853-1858



Terra Incognita 1859-1860



Civilizers



Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization 1860-1862



Roads Paved with Gold 1863



A Noose Pendant 1863-1864



Tales of the Chief Guide 1864-1867



The Leading Men 1865-1867



Mission in the Snow 1865



Call to Arms 1866-1867



Soldiers



Paths of Glory 1860-1868



The Lost Tribes of the Second Cavalry May-July 1869



The Fort at the End of the World July 1869



A Death in the Family July-August 1869



The World of Letters and the World of Arms September-October 1869



Forty-four Below December 1869-January 1870



A Case of Mistaken Identity December 1869-January 1870



Heroes of the Hour January-March 1870



Explorers



The Spoils of War May-August 1870



Grand, Gloomy, and Terrible August 22-29, 1870



Nine Nights Without Sleep August 29-September 3, 1870



The Deep Woods September 4-17, 1870



Lost and Found September-October 1870



The Professionals 1871



The Final Frontier 1872



Northern Pacific 1872



Tourists



Temple of the Living God 1872-1877



The Nerve to Execute 1874-1876



Chief of Scouts July-August 1877



Full Circle August-October 1877


Epilogue: The Man Who Invented Wonderland


Dramatis Personae


Notes


Bibliography


Index