Dreams of El Dorado by Brands, H.W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Prologue PART I: NAPOLEON’S GIFT

1. The River at the Heart of America 2. The Corps of Discovery 3. West by Northwest 4. To the Pacific

PART II: A SKIN FOR A SKIN

5. Astoria 6. Comcomly’s Dismay 7. The White-Headed Eagle 8. Mountain Man 9. Colter’s Run 10. Ursus Horribilis

PART III: GONE TO TEXAS

11. Moses Austin’s Dying Wish 12. Texas Will Be Lost 13. Ruin and Redemption 14. Victory or Death 15. Bloody Palm Sunday 16. Laying There Yet

PART IV: THE GREAT MIGRATION

17. The Four Wise Men 18. Females Wanted 19. Trapped Out 20. Waiilatpu 21. For God and Country 22. The Way West 23. The Business of the Trail 24. Desperate Fury 25. Ambassador from Oregon

PART V: THE WORLD IN A NUGGET OF GOLD

26. The Secret of the Sierra Nevada 27. Gold Mountain 28. Crime and Punishment 29. The Spirit of ’87 30. To Be Decently Poor 31. Where Can We Go?

PART VI: STEEL RAILS AND SHARPS RIFLES

32. Stephen Douglas’s Brainstorm 33. North, South, West 34. Free Soil 35. Hell on Wheels 36. Saints and Sinners 37. Once We Were Happy 38. There Would Be No Soldiers Left 39. Adobe Walls 40. Lost River 41. The Pride of Young Joseph

PART VII: THE MIDDLE BORDER

42. Abilene 43. Hard Lesson 44. Into the Great Unknown 45. The Arid Region 46. More Like Us 47. It Grew Very Cold 48. Less Corn and More Hell 49. Bonanza

PART VIII: THE COWBOY IN THE WHITE HOUSE

50. Rough Riding 51. West Takes East 52. Cashing In 53. John Muir’s Last Stand 54. The Long, Long Trail

Acknowledgments Discover More About the Author Also by H. W. Brands Notes