Schwantes,Carlos Arnaldo.
Long day's journey. The steamboat & stagecoach era in the Northern West.
Seattle, London, Univ.of Washington Press
1999,
cm.27x26,
pp.408, centinaia di ill.e tavv.bn.e col.nt.
legatura ed.soprac.fig.a col.
In Long Day’s Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming?first by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and stern-wheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses.
EAN:
9780295976914