DREAMS OF EL DORADO: A History of the American West

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. Bringing out the finest and the basest in those who ventured there, visions of great wealth drew generations of Americans westward--but El Dorado was never more elusive than in the West. Illus.