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Author Morgan, Robert, 1944-

Title Lions of the West [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] heroes and villains of the westward expansion / Robert Morgan.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.
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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 497 pages) : illustrations, maps
Note "A Shannon Ravenel Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Brief chronology of the westward expansion era -- Presidents and vice-presidents before the Civil War -- Prologue : the empire for liberty -- Thomas Jefferson : he sees the elephant -- Andrew Jackson : Old Hickory at the Bend -- John Chapman : apples and angels -- David Crockett : comedian and martyr, his life and death -- Sam Houston : the president who loved to dance -- James K. Polk : Young Hickory keeps a diary -- Winfield Scott : Old Fuss and Feathers goes to the mountain -- Kit Carson : taking Boone's Trace to the Pacific -- Nicholas Trist : the search for a father voice -- Epilogue : John Quincy Adams : Old Man Eloquent.
Summary Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.
Subject United States -- Territorial expansion.
West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.
Pioneers -- United States -- Biography.
Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Morgan, Robert, 1944- Lions of the West. 1st ed. Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011 9781565126268 (DLC) 2011023832 (OCoLC)712124022
ISBN 9781616201197 (electronic bk.)
1616201193 (electronic bk.)
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