Cox tours the country in loosely linked chapters: the Liberty Bell and the Revolution, the Salem witch trials, picturesque New York, the Mormons and their wives, the land rush into Oklahoma, cowboys real and ideal, and Custer’s last stand. Its chapters on Native Americans, the nation’s ‘wards’, speak in the paternal and often dismissive voice of the 1890s.
A period portrait of how Americans saw their own country at the close of the frontier. Download the free EPUB.