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Into the West : The Story of Its People
by Nugent, Walter
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- ISBN 10
- 0679454799
- ISBN 13
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About This Item
New York, NY, USA: Alfred A Knopf, 2004. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xxiv, 494pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Quarter bound in purple cloth over brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Outer text block edge untrimmed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has 0.5cm closed tear at spine head, has seom shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Full-scale history of the people of the American West from the ancestral Paleo-Indians to the Spanish conquistadors and settlers, to the gold rushers, to the myriads who came from every direction in the twentieth century right up to the late 1990s.
Synopsis
Walter Nugent has taught history at the University of Notre Dame since 1984 and, before that, was Professor of History at Indiana University for twenty-one years. As a visiting professor he has also taught and lived in England, Israel, Germany, Poland, and Ireland. He has published eight previous books and well over a hundred essays and reviews on American and comparative history. He lives with his wife, the historian Suellen Hoy, in Chesterton, Indiana. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Into the West : The Story of Its People
- Author
- Nugent, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679454799
- ISBN 13
- 9780679454793
- Publisher
- Alfred A Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- New World,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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