The First West - Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 by Edward Watts and David Rachels
Tracing historic events in the early westward movement, The First West: Writing from the American Frontier 1776-1860 brings together a unique and extensive range of writers and texts. Many of the texts produced in and about this "first West" have not been reprinted until now. The book's selections include government documents and treaties, land-promotion schemes, white depictions of natives, native accounts of whites, easterners describing westerners, westerners describing easterners, and literary texts. Several selections concern contact and conquest, while others focus on community building in the wake of westward-moving white settlement.
This paperback book is in very good condition with minor imperfections to the cover. Pages in very good condition.
ISBN 10: 0195141334 / ISBN 13: 9780195141337
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2002
