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For his careful, penetrating analysis of the Sand Creek Massacre, the most lucid and reasoned account of this controversial affair yet seen\"- San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . expert historical writing with the markings of a definitive study.\"-Montana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A well-written and soundly based narrative.\"-Ethnohistory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\". . . a notable contribution to the history of the American West.\"-Mississippi Valley Historical Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald J. Berthrong is Professor Emeritus of History, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. 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This second edition provides a new preface, additional maps and illustrations, and a revised bibliographical essay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1845, Edward Meyer Kern, a native Philadelphia and a promising young painter, joined John Charles Frémont on his Third Expedition to the West. Kern would serve as the famed explorer's artist, topographer, and cartographer. On the arduous journey through Nevada to Monterey, he mapped routes that the settlers would follow west. When the expedition became embroiled in the struggle for California and the United States went to war against Mexico, Kern was placed in command of Fort Sutter. Through all the turmoil he continued to paint, producing remarkable scenes of America's western territories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKern persuaded his brothers Benjamin and Richard to join him on Frémont's disastrous Fourth Expedition to seek a railroad route to the Pacific. 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This magnificent chronicle-the second installment of Will Bagley's sweeping Overland West series-captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America's first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, \u003cem\u003eWith Golden Visions Bright Before Them\u003c\/em\u003e retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America's Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. 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He has brought these 'cattle-trailing contractors,' who have long been names in legends, back into a rich and earthy aliveness.  He calls them American geniuses, and that they were.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreat Plains Journal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harsh business realities of driving cattle are separated in this book from the mythology and folklore of the cattle-trailing era. Jimmy M. Skaggs focuses on the transportation agents who contracted the delivery of cattle for Texas ranchers and drove the animals northward for sale. He reveals them as shrewd \"hip-pocket\" businessmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJimmy M. 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