Empire of shadows : the epic story of Yellowstone
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2012].
Edition
First St. Martin Press edition: May 2013
Physical Description
ix, 548 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Wyoming Collection
WYO 978.752 BLACK 2012
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WYO 978.752 BLACK 2012
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Wyoming Collection | WYO 978.752 BLACK 2012 | On Shelf |
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Big Horn Co. Library - Basin - Wyoming Collection | WYO 978.752 BLA | On Shelf | |
CCL - Douglas - Western Americana Collection | WA 917.87 BLA | On Shelf | |
CCL - Glenrock - Western Americana Collection | WA 978.7 BLA | On Shelf | |
Casper College Library - Main Collection | F722 .B53 2012 | On Shelf | |
Crook Co. Library - Wyoming Collection | WYO 978 BLA | On Shelf |
Subjects
Library of Congress Subjects
Doane, Gustavus Cheyney, -- 1840-1892.
Hayden, F. V. -- (Ferdinand Vandeveer), -- 1829-1887.
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, -- 1832-1911.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, -- 1831-1888.
United States -- Colonial question.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration.
Yellowstone National Park -- History.
Hayden, F. V. -- (Ferdinand Vandeveer), -- 1829-1887.
Langford, Nathaniel Pitt, -- 1832-1911.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, -- 1831-1888.
United States -- Colonial question.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Territorial expansion.
Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration.
Yellowstone National Park -- History.
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2012].
Format
Book
Edition
First St. Martin Press edition: May 2013
Language
English
UPC
40020710180
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-526) and index.
Summary
In a radical reinterpretation of the 19th-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. Yellowstone, Wyoming, was landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. Black 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 Hayden, who brought photographer William Henry Jackson and painter Thomas Moran to Yellowstone; and Gen. Phil Sheridan, Civil War hero and architect of the Indian Wars, who finally succeeded in having the new National Park placed under the protection of the U.S. Cavalry. The exploration of Yellowstone is a quintessentially American story of terrible things done in the name of high ideals and of high ideals realized by dubious means.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Black, G. (2012). Empire of shadows: the epic story of Yellowstone (First St. Martin Press edition: May 2013). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Black, George, 1949-. 2012. Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Black, George, 1949-. Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone St. Martin's Press, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Black, George. Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone First St. Martin Press edition: May 2013, St. Martin's Press, 2012.
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