Out West
A Journey through Lewis and Clark's America
One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's Voyage of Discovery (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate journeys: Lewis and Clark's epic adventure through uncharted wilderness; Duncan's retracing of the historic trail, now in various ways tamed, paved, and settled; and the journey of the American West in the years in between. Readers traveling with Duncan will encounter the people who inhabit today's West: farmers and ranchers, cowboys and mountain men, Native Americans, residents of dying small towns, city dwellers who have survived cycles of boom and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-6626-1
- EAN: 9780803266261
- Produktnummer: 9388908
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 452 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.4 cm x D2.5 cm 635 g
- Abbildungen: Illus., maps
- Gewicht: 635
Über den Autor
Dayton Duncan has been a reporter, humor columnist, editorial writer, chief of staff to a governor, and deputy press secretary for presidential campaigns. Born and raised in a small town in Iowa, he now makes his home in Walpole, New Hampshire. His books include Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier, also available in a Bison Books edition.
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