{"product_id":"the-undiscovered-country-triumph-tragedy-and-the-shaping-of-the-american-west","title":"The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-size:16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e Bestseller\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nA \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eWall Street Journal \u003c\/span\u003eTop Ten Book of the Year\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nA \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eTrue West Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e Best Historical Non-Fiction Book and Best Author of the Year\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nWestern Heritage Award for “Outstanding Nonfiction Book”\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nWinner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical Nonfiction\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nWinner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003e\r\nFrom the author of \u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;\"\u003eThe Apache Wars\u003c\/span\u003e, the true story of the American West, revealing how American ambition clashed with the realities of violence and exploitation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe epic of the American West became a tale of progress, redemption, and glorious conquest that came to shape the identity of a new nation. Over time a darker story emerged—one of ghastly violence and environmental spoliation that stained this identity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Undiscovered Country\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e strips away the layers of myth to reveal the true story of this first epoch of American history. From the forests of Pennsylvania and Kentucky to the snow-crested California Sierras, and from the harsh deserts of the Southwest to the buffalo range of the Great Plains, Paul Andrew Hutton masterfully chronicles a story that defined America and its people. From Braddock’s 1755 defeat to the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, he unfolds a grand narrative steeped in romantic impulses and tragic consequences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eHutton uses seven main protagonists—Daniel Boone, Red Eagle, Davy Crockett, Mangas Coloradas, Kit Carson, Sitting Bull, and William “Buffalo Bill” Cody—as the biographical threads by which to weave a tapestry across seven generations, revealing a story of heroic conquest and dark tragedy, of sacrifice and greed, and of man-made wonders and environmental ruin.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Fort-Book; font-size: 16px;\"\u003e\r\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe American frontier movement has proven eternally fascinating around the world—the subject of countless books, paintings, poems, television shows, and films. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-shadow: none; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eThe Undiscovered Country \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003ereveals the truth behind America’s great creation myth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Paul Andrew Hutton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48035198173362,"sku":"9781524746148","price":500.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781524746148.jpg?v=1789175074","url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/products\/the-undiscovered-country-triumph-tragedy-and-the-shaping-of-the-american-west","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}