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Empire of Shadows
The Epic Story of Yellowstone
by George Black
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Pub Date Mar 13 2012 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, a
landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the
Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George
Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven
strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian
Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the
lives of those who sought to lay bare its mysteries: Lt. Gustavus Cheyney
Doane, a gifted but tormented cavalryman known as "the man who invented
Wonderland"; the ambitious former vigilante leader Nathaniel Langford; scientist
Ferdinand Hayden, who brought photographer William Henry Jackson and painter
Thomas Moran to Yellowstone; and Gen. Phil Sheridan, Civil War hero and
architect of the Indian Wars, who finally succeeded in having the new National
Park placed under the protection of the US Cavalry. George Black¹s Empire of
Shadows is a groundbreaking historical account of the origins of America¹s
majestic national landmark.
Advance Praise
“George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet’s most
magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you’ll never think of
our first—in many ways our greatest—national
park in the same way again.” —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder
park in the same way again.” —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9780312383190 |
PRICE | $35.00 (USD) |
PAGES | 576 |