Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion

Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion by Sheinkin, Steve. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781596436268.

History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West. With a storytellers voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkins Which Way to the Wild West? delivers Americas greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if youre negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.