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Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy-trailblazer, geographer, fighter in the Mexican War, American Indian authority, and author-traveled as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer. Yet, Marcy has not achieved the fame of Lewis and Clark, Pike, Long, and Fremont, although he was the first to trace the Red River, in 1852. Marcy conducted five major expeditions through the West and drafted the first reasonably accurate maps of the Southwest. His advice to his military superiors led to the establishment of the chain of "Cross Timbers" forts from Fort Smith to New...

Few historians know and love the American West better than Joe Frantz does, and few have written more critically about it. His addresses and articles, marked by both insight and charm, have brought him much acclaim, as have his books. The three thought-provoking essays in this volume are excellent examples of his work.
The first essay, "Yellowstone National Park: Genesis of an Urban Solution," was first delivered by Dr. Frantz as the Norman Furniss Lecture at Colorado State University in 1971 and was subsequently published in "Montana"" The Magazine of Western History." In it he portrays...