Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone by Black, George. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312383190.

€œGeorge 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€”nationalpark in the same way again.€€”Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder 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 Yellowstones 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 Won