How The West Was Lost

How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue of fundamentally flawed economic policies. It is these decisions that, along the way, have resulted in an economic and geo-political

'How the West Was Lost' tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost. It focuses on the common ground between Indians and backcountry settlers which was not found.

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The Legends are Back Buck Hawkins and Dobie Garrett, fresh off the outlaw trail and cleared of all trumped-up charges against them, are back doing what they do best as ordinary cowboys on the Singletree Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, happy as a pup with a buttered biscuit. But they

As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian