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Men to Match My Mountains by Irving Stone 1956

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Title: Men to Match My Mountains
Series: Mainstream of America
Condition: Used – Good
Author(s): Irving Stone
Topic(s): North America, History, 19th Century, Southwest (AZ; NM; OK; TX), State & Local, United States
Format: Hardcover
Features: Dust Jacket
Year: 1956
Language: English

Details: Taking as his motif the poet Sam Foss’s words, **“Bring me men to match my mountains,”** Irving Stone has created an interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward drive which, in a few rousing decades, settled a continent and gave the United States dimensions of which its founders hardly dreamed. Exploration, sudden wealth, unspeakable hardship, the golden chance to build a new life in a new land – all these are present in this saga of human aspiration.
This book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by what the geographers call the true Far West — California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, Southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston’s Ring and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H. A.W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more. There were the Mormons who tamed the desert with Bible texts, polygamy and co-operation; miners who played wild melodramas in Nevada’s Comstock Lode and Colorado’s awesome Rockies; the tragic Donner Party; gun-toting newspapermen and bankers; and some of the world’s most fascinating women.
There were men who went West to fight, to make millions (or lose them), to die famous, infamous, or unknown; men who built colonies, railroads, cities, financial empires, or dreamed and struggled and failed. They were men who were larger than life size, who matched the mountains and shaped a pattern of American history.

Extra Author Details: Stoneˏ Irving : 1903-1989
Fast Tags: New Southwest, Frontier and pioneer life, West United States
ISBN: 9780425105443
DDC: 979
LCC: F786
OCLC_OWI: 377410705

Additional information

Weight3.75 lbs
Dimensions18 × 14 × 3 in
Authors

ISBN

9780425105443

Vintage

Yes

Publication date

Topic

Frontier and pioneer life

Condition

Used – Good

Book Title

Men to Match My Mountains

Book Series

Era

Features

Dust Jacket

Year

Genre

Language

Narrative Type

Nonfiction

AgeGroup

Adults

Gender

unisex

Type

Material

Signed

No

Inscribed

No

DDC

Fast Tags

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Extra Author Details

LCC

OCLC_OWI

ConditionGood