TY - BOOK ID - 30822071 TI - The winning of the West : from the Alleghenies to the Mississippi PY - 2015 SN - 0554460793 1629143847 1632201933 PB - New York, New York : Skyhorse Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - United States KW - Northwest, Old KW - West (U.S.) KW - Territorial expansion. KW - History KW - American West KW - Trans-Mississippi West (U.S.) KW - United States, Western KW - Western States (U.S.) KW - Western United States KW - Annexations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30822071 AB - Defeated politically and running out of money after a ranch deal gone bad, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his epic history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He wove a sweeping drama, well documented and filled to the brim with Americans fighting Indian confederacies in the north and south while dealing with the machinations of the British, French, and Spanish and their sympathizers. Roosevelt wanted to show how backwoodsmen such as Daniel Boone and Simon Kenton, followed by hardy pioneer settlers, won the United States the claim to land west of the Alleghanies. Heroism and treach ER -