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Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West
Sacagawea's Nickname Essays on the American West Author:Larry McMurtry In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars, figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality. In these 12 pieces, McMurtry explores John Wesley Powell's journey on the Colorado, the dispossession of the Five Civilized Tribes, the fascination the Zuni hel... more »d over a parade of unscrupulous anthropologists, and, in the bicentennial of their journey, the journals of Lewis and Clark, "our only really American epic."