Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1250023203 ISBN13: 9781250023209 Release Date: May 2013 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Length: 576 Pages Weight: 1.45 lbs. Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1" "George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows, and you'll never think of our first--in many ways our greatest--national park in the same way again."--Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder Empire of Shadows is the epic story of the conquest of Yellowstone, Wyoming, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible and shrouded in myth in the aftermath of the Civil War. In a radical reinterpretation of the nineteenth century West, George Black casts Yellowstone's creation as the culmination of three interwoven strands of history - the passion for exploration, the violence of the Indian Wars and the "civilizing" of the frontier - and charts its course through the lives of those who sought to lay bare its m