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Title: The Winning of the West: The Founding of the Trans-Allegheny Commonwealths 1784-1790: With Map by Theodore Roosevelt, Michael N. McConnell ISBN: 0-8032-8956-1 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent descriptions of early frontier life
Comment: Before Roosevelt begins sensationalizing in the second volume, he describes the utter wilderness of the region and characterizes both the individual settlers and Indians who would play decisive roles in the settlement and migration of whites westward, and also gives sweeping portraits of the Indian nations encountered during our westward expansion. The hardships of the settlers due to the ruggedness of their new mountain home, their self-reliance, the cold winters, the need to fell forest for pasture and tillage, the daily peril of Indian attacks, and the distant relations with their origins to the east complete this wonderfully written and diversified study of early American frontier life.
Rating: 4
Summary: A bully read, but patience helps....
Comment: Roosevelt does quite well to capture the essence of what went on during the period when the colonists began westward. The point made by the editor that it is indeed a wonder that this work was ever created at all is well taken when one considers Roosevelt's involvement with so much else in his life while he produced what, for the time, was a very scholarly opus.
One must be patient with the narrative; it tends to be choppy. One must also be patient with, or at least understanding of, TR's view of the world and especially his notion of upon whom the greater glory of the westward expansion rests.
All in all, it is seemingly a must read (as is the entire series) for anyone having either an interest in the history of this time, or an interest in TR and his works.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Man Writes a Great History
Comment: Theodore's Roosevelt's "The Winning of The West" volume one is unlike most modern histories. His is a story of the founding of the American Republic West of the Original 13. This volume is of the late Colonial Period. He is unafraid to make very harsh judgements, attacking both the American Indians and the Pioneers, although it is clear who he favours. He does have many prejudices, but, to be honest, most Historians do. President Roosevelt's were just of the less respected, today at least, kind. The whole series is very much worth reading, and is a worthy investment of capital and time. Ryan M.
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Title: The Winning of the West: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi 1777-1783: With Maps by Theodore Roosevelt, Daniel K. Richter ISBN: 0803289553 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: Hunting Trips of a Ranchman & The Wilderness Hunter by Theodore Roosevelt ISBN: 0375751521 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 12 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Naval War of 1812 by Theodore Roosevelt ISBN: 0375754199 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 04 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington ISBN: 0803289138 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1983 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Strenuous Life (Little Books of Wisdom) by Theodore Roosevelt ISBN: 1557091420 Publisher: Applewood Books Pub. Date: April, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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