آنتونی رابینز میگه : من در 40 سالگی به جایی رسیدم که برای رسیدن بهش 82 سال زمان لازمه و این رو مدیون کتاب خواندن زیاد هستم.
From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond. “Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians.” —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder InDreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling panoramic story of the settling of the American West, from Lewis and Clark’s expedition in the early nineteenth century to the closing of the frontier by the early twentieth. He introduces us to explorers, mountain men, cowboys, missionaries, and soldiers, taking us from John Jacob Astor’s fur-trading campaign in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. Throughout, Brands explores the contradictions of the West and explodes its longstanding myths. The West has been celebrated as the proving ground of American individualism; in reality,theWestdepended on collective action and federal largesse more than any other region.The Westbrought out the finest and basest in those who ventured there, evoking both selfless heroism and unspeakable violence. Visions of great wealthdrew generations of Americans westward, but El Dorado was never more elusive than inthe West. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told,Dreams of El Doradosets a new standard for histories of the American West.

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