M. R. Montgomery

Jefferson and the Gun-Men

How the West Was Almost Lost

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Contrary to popular opinion, the opening of the American frontier was not a simple land purchase; it was actually a hardscrabble fight. Even as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out on their legendary journey to the Pacific Ocean, other forces were taking the measure of the land with far darker ambitions. Aaron Burr, the charming and treacherous former vice president, determined that if he could not be master of his nation, he would instead become emperor of the next best thing: the Louisiana Territory. Slyly working with the powerful and ambitious commander of the U.S. Army, General James Wilkinson, Burr instigated a plot to seize not o… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Gandy, Peter

ISBN: 978-0-676-80656-4
EAN: 9780676806564
Produktnummer: 15717929
Verlag: Crown
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'014 KB
Abbildungen: LINE DRAWINGS

Über den Autor

M.R. Montgomery has been a journalist for thirty years and is the author of five previous books. He graduated from Stanford University and the University of Oregon with degrees in American history. A native of Montana, he has returned there often in search of the landscape and community that make up the last remnants of the days of bison and longhorns, cowboys, and schoolmarms.