The Westerners.

UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn but price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Frederic Remington, illustrated dw/dj, with yellow,red and black lettering; with some minimal negligible shelf-wear,creasing to top rear and front lower edges and light rubbing to top+lower front corners.A small closed tear with concomitant creasing towards front,lower corner and an approx 1/5"th deep and 4/5"ths long dw/dj portion missing - no other major nicks or tears present - spine /backstrip inevitably but lightly sunned/faded.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain chocolate brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate sepia pictorially illustrated endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-288pp [paginated] includes colour illustrations and b/w maps lists/tables, an introduction,17 chapters,illus with profuse contemporary b/w+ colour photographs and b/w+colour illustration reproductions throughout the text and the book,full captions and acknowledgements for illustrations list/table,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table.
'The story of the American West has all the elements of the Iliad and Odyssey.It is a heroic world of quests and wars,of journeyings into remote lands,of daring hunts,last stands,and legendary exploits.It is an epic of mighty deeds,of triumphs and failures,of inconsistent heroes and heroines.' In 'The Westerners' Dee Brown follows the frontiersmen into this heroic world.His earliest guides are the Spaniards,the first Europeans to explore the American Southwest in the sixteenth century.But from here,instead of writing another chronological history of the opening of America's West,Mr Brown tells the story through the experiences of a few influential or representative Westerners - white men and white women and Indians - people like Jedediah Strong Smith,Susan Magoffin, Brigham Young and Sitting Bull. It is primarily a story of movement - of the early mappers of water-routes for the fur traders,of travellers on treks and trails,of gold-rushers,of the builders and operators of stagecoach and mail services,telegraphs and rail roads,and not least of the Indians they pushed before them.It is also a tale of invasion.Many of the explorers were motivated by greed rather than by adventure; developers imagined that Indian land was theirs for the taking. There were those who were on friendly terms with the Indians: George Caitlin,for instance,whose paintings of Indian life provide some of the 32 color and 120 black-and-white illustrations.But generally the spirit of the pioneer was embodied in Theodore Roosevelt who,as Dee Brown writes,mixed a self-reliance and hearty friendliness towards his own kind with a deep suspicion of different peoples,used naked force to resolve disputes and gain objectives,and who as President did much to imprint these traits into the American ethos where they endure to this day. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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