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- Charlie Munger: "There is nothing in history to match the stories of these men who braved wilderness to bring new nation to the shores of the Pacific." source ↗
Summary
Irving Stone's narrative history of the American West from 1840 to 1900, covering the explorers, settlers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who opened the continent from the Missouri River to the Pacific. Stone profiles John C. Frémont, Brigham Young, the forty-niners of the California Gold Rush, the transcontinental railroad builders, the cattle barons, and the silver kings of the Comstock Lode, weaving their individual stories into a single account of how a vast territory was settled in six decades — an epic of ambition, risk, and unintended consequences.