Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West - Larry McMurtry

Explorers and martyrs, princes and poets, hucksters and scholars fill the pages of Larry McMurtry’s new book on the history and enduring yet ever-shifting myths of the American West. In twelve essays from The New York Review, he ranges from Lewis and Clark’s expedition on the Missouri River, where they immortalized Sacagawea in the Journals that McMurtry calls our first American epic, to John Wesley Powell’s on the Colorado, from the dispossession of the Five Civilized Tribes to the fascination of Zuni for a parade of unscrupulous anthropologists, from entertainers like Buffalo Bill and Annie Oakley to pulp writers like Zane Grey.

data wydania

30 kwietnia 2004

ISBN

1590170997

język

angielski