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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Black, George, 1949-     Subjects     National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.     Yellowstone National Park -- History.     Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration.     Yellowstone National Park.     United States -- History -- 1849-1877.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Black, George, 1949-       by title:      Empire of shadows : ...       by call number:      978.752 B627e     Search the Web     Black, George, 1949-     National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.     Yellowstone National Park -- History.     Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration.     Yellowstone National Park.     United States -- History -- 1849-1877.       MARC Display

Empire of shadows : the epic story of Yellowstone / George Black. by Black, George, 1949- St. Martin's Press, c2012. Call #: 978.752 B627e Subjects National parks and reserves -- United States -- History.   Yellowstone National Park -- History.   Yellowstone National Park -- Discovery and exploration.   Yellowstone National Park.   United States -- History -- 1849-1877. ISBN:  9780312383190 (hc.) 0312383193 (hc.) Alternate title:  Epic story of Yellowstone Edition:  1st ed. Description:  ix, 548 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm + 2 p. of plates (maps ; 18 x 13 cm). Notes:  Maps inserted. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-526) and index. Contents:  The view from Mount Washburn -- Pathfinders -- Civilizers -- Soldiers -- Explorers -- Tourists -- The man who invented Wonderland. Summary:  "Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth 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 - and 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 US Cavalry. George Black1s Empire of Shadows is a groundbreaking historical account of the origins of America1s majestic national landmark."--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Woodlawn Public Library Adult Nonfiction 978.752 B627e Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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