Steve Sheinkin - Which Way to the Wild West?
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History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storytellers voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinken delivers Americas greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if youre negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.
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When I started researching this book on the West, the problem wasnt finding sourcesit was finding too many sources. A history nerd like myself (actually I prefer to think of myself as a story detective) can get so excited about exploring all the amazing stories that he never actually writes a book. Or gets paid. What Im trying to say is that I went through a lot of books. Below is a list of the books and others sources in which I found all the great stuff you read in this book (you did read it, right?). I hope its helpful.
Books about the West
As always, I started by reading books that give an overview of all the action and major players. These books cover Americas westward expansion, Indians, mountain men, miners, cowboys, pioneers, railroads, and lots more. They also introduced me to tons of great characterspeople I made sure to find out more about in other books.
Barnard, Edward S. Readers Digest: Story of the Great American West . Pleasantville, N.Y.: Readers Digest Association, 1977.
Lavender, David. The Great West . New York: American Heritage, 1985.
Stegner, Page. Winning the Wild West: The Epic Saga of the American Frontier, 18001899. New York: Free Press, 2002.
Utley, Robert M., ed. The Story of the West: A History of the American West and Its People. New York: DK Pub., 2003.
Ward, Geoffrey C. The West: An Illustrated History. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
Wexler , Alan. Atlas of Westward Expansion . New York: Facts on File, 1995.
Books and articles about territorial expansion and trails west
The sources here cover a lot of ground (literally). Theyre all about the rapid expansion of United States, along with stories about early American traders, travelers, and settlers. Speaking of expansion of the United States, how come no ones ever made a movie (a comedy, I mean) about Livingston and Monroe in Paris, trying to figure out if they should buy half a continent from France? Hey, Id see it.
Ambrose, Stephen. Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Brands, H. W. Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for Texas Independenceand Changed America. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Cerami, Charles. Jeffersons Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase. Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2003.
Christensen, Carol and Thomas. The U.S.-Mexican War: Companion to the Public Television Series, The U.S.-Mexican War, 18461848 . San Francisco: Bay Books, 1998.
Corbett, Christopher. Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express . New York: Broadway Books, 2003.
Dary, David. The Oregon Trail: An American Saga . New York: Knopf, 2004.
. The Santa Fe Trail: Its History, Legends, and Lore . New York: Knopf, 2000.
Eisenhower, John S. D. So Far from God: The U.S. War with Mexico, 18461848 . New York: Random House, 1989.
Golay, Michael. The Tide of Empire: Americas March to the Pacific . Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 2003.
Hansen, Todd, ed. The Alamo Reader: A Study in History . Mechanicsburg, Penn.: Stackpole Books, 2003.
Hyslop, Stephen. Bound for Santa Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, 18061848. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.
Kukla, Jon. A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America . New York: Knopf, 2003.
Leckie, Robert. From Sea to Shining Sea: From the War of 1812 to the Mexican War, the Saga of Americas Expansion. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.
Lyon, E. Wilson. The Man Who Sold Louisiana: The Career of Francois Barb-Marbois . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1942.
Matovina, Timothy, ed. The Alamo Remembered: Tejano Accounts and Perspectives . Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
McLynn, Frank. Wagons West: The Epic Story of Americas Overland Trails. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
Morris, Larry E. The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the Expedition . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.
OSullivan, John. Annexation. United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17, no. 1 (JulyAugust 1845): PP NOs.
Ronda, James P. Lewis & Clark Among the Indians . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Schlissel, Lillian. Womens Diaries of the Westward Journey. New York: Schocken Books, 1982.
Stewart, George R. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party . New York: H. Holt and Co., 1936.
Tucker, Robert W., and William C. Henderson. Empire of Liberty: The Statecraft of Thomas Jefferson . New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Utley, Robert M. A Life Wild and Perilous : Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific . New York: Henry Holt, 1997.
Webb, Walter Prescott. The Handbook of Texas . Austin: Texas State Historical Society, 1952.
Books and sources on the gold rush and miners
If you were an American in 1849, do you think youd have joined the gold rush? Im betting most miners would probably have stayed home if theyd known how hard it was going to be to strike it rich. Too bad for them that they couldnt read the books belowall about how hard it was to strike it rich. These sources also show us how different the gold rush experience was for men and women, and for people from different parts of the world.
Andrist, Ralph K. American Heritage: The California Gold Rush . New York: American Heritage Publishing, 1961.
Egenhoff, Elisabeth L. The Elephant as They Saw It: A Collection of Contemporary Pictures and Statements on Gold Mining in California . California Division of Mines, 1949.
Holliday, J. S. Rush for Riches: Gold Fever and the Making of California . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
. The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience . New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.
Johnson, Susan Lee. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush . New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.
Ketchum, Liza. The Gold Rush . Boston: Little, Brown, 1996.
Lapp, Rudolph M. Blacks in Gold Rush California . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.
Lavender, David. The Rockies . New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
Lavoie, Steven. Wimmers Nugget. Online article at Oakland Museum of California website, www.museumca.org/goldrush/ar08.html .
Levy, Jo Ann. They Saw the Elephant: Women in the California Gold Rush . Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.
Perl, Lila. To the Golden Mountain . Tarrytown, N.Y.: Benchmark Books, 2003.
Ridge, John Rollin. The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1955.
Walker, Dale L. Eldorado: The California Gold Rush . New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2003.
Wallace, Robert. The Old West: The Miners . New York: Time Life Books, 1976.
Yung, Judy, Gordon H. Chang, and Him Mark Lai, eds. Chinese American Voices: From the Gold Rush to the Present . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Books about railroad building
Way back when I started this project, my idea was to make the whole book about the building of the transcontinental railroad. So, maybe it wasnt a great idea. But you have to admit, the railroad race was exciting stuff, and actually getting the thing built was one of the great engineering feats of all time. These books tell all about the people who pulled it off.
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