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Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

Name: Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone
Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
SKU: 9781250023209
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Contributors:

George Black

Publisher:

St. Martin's Griffin

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Travel

Book Subcategory:

United States, Parks & Campgrounds

Book Topic:

19th Century, State & Local

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Release Date:

2013-05-28

ISBN 13:

9781250023209

Weight:

1.76 lbs

Size:

9.10 x 6.10 x 1.50 inches

Pages:

576

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"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

Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, Wyoming, 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 Black s Empire of Shadows is a groundbreaking historical account of the origins of America s majestic national landmark.

About the Author

GEORGE BLACK is the author of The Trout Pool Paradox and Casting a Spell. He is the executive editor of OnEarth magazine, a publication of the Natural Resources Defense Council. He lives in New York.

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