Writing of them, he sustains a racy style. This blend of information and entertainment is difficult to match."- Twentieth-Century Western Writers, "The author is at his best with the mountain men who ranged vast country, endured dire hardship, and exulted in their freedom. "-Walter Havighurst, New York Times Book Review, A work of "genuine scholarship, meticulously researched, and told in a lively and colorful style.
This blend of information and entertainment is difficult to match."- Twentieth-Century Western Writers "The author is at his best with the mountain men who ranged vast country, endured dire hardship, and exulted in their freedom.
This blend of information and entertainment is difficult to match."Twentieth-Century Western Writers, A work of "genuine scholarship, meticulously researched, and told in a lively and colorful style. Playing their roles on this huge historical stage are Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, Hugh Glass, Jim Bowie, William Ashley, Mike Fink, Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Thomas Hart Benton, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, Peg-leg Smith, Mountain Lamb, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, Jack Swilling, Henry Plummer, Jack Coffee Hays, Deaf Smith, John Charles Frémont, Brigham Young, John Sutter, Sitting Bull, Cynthia Ann Parker, Joaquin Murrieta, and Wild Bill Hickok.Ī work of "genuine scholarship, meticulously researched, and told in a lively and colorful style. John Myers Myers begins with the struggle for Texas and follows the men and women who came West: the mountain men beyond the mouth of the Yellowstone, the emigrants to Oregon, the fortune hunters to California, the Mormons to Salt Lake, the stagecoaches, express ponies, and steam-engine trains through mountain passes and open country, and the outlaws to all of it. Here they are shown trapping beaver, confronting bears, trading, and discovering natural wonders as they advance ever farther into the wilds. Appearing, exiting, and reappearing in this history are trappers, traders, prospectors, gunslingers, missionaries, soldiers, and scientists. Bravos of the Westis a panoramic history of the development of the West after the Lewis and Clark expedition.