When first published under the title, Edward Kern and American Expansion, Ray Allen Billington called this book "one of the most readable, pleasant, exciting books about the West that I have ever known," and Allen Nevins called it "a contribution of the first importance to Western History." This absorbing account has become a classic, indispensable to understanding America's inexorable drive westward to the Pacific-and beyond. This second edition provides a new preface, additional maps and illustrations, and a revised bibliographical essay. In 1845, Edward Meyer Kern, a native Philadelphia...
When first published under the title, Edward Kern and American Expansion, Ray Allen Billington called this book "one of the most readable, pleasant, e...
