Found 20,912 results for "American West"
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Alexander Brown
IT BEGAN with Christopher Columbus, who gave the people the name Indios.
Cadillac desert
by Marc Reisner
The American West was explored by white men half a century before the first colonists set foot on Virginia's beaches, bu...
Undaunted Courage
by Stephen E. Ambrose
From the west-facing window of the room in which Meriwether Lewis was born on August 18, 1774, one could look out at Roc...
The vow
by Linda Lael Miller
ANNABEL LATHAM MCKEIGE'S RETURN TO PARABLE, Nevada, some twelve years after her scandalous departure, might have equaled...
The Westing Game
by Ellen Raskin
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east.
The Journey Home
by Edward Abbey
In the summer of 1944, the year before the year I fell in love, I hitchhiked from Pennsylvania to Seattle by way of Chic...
Rivers of Empire
by Donald Worster
In his 1862 essay "Walking,"Henry David Thoreau described a daily ritual that was characteristically American in his tim...
