Dreams of El Dorado

H.W. Brands tells the story of settling the American West,from fur trading in Oregon to the Texas Revolution; from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants’ vivid dreams drove courageperseveranceand outrageous acts of violence. The West was where riches rewarded a miner’s persistencea cattleman’s couragea railroad man’s enterprise; but El Dorado was as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East.