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Mar 19, 1999 · How the West Was Lost tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost.
Jul 8, 1996 · How the West Was Lost tracks the overlapping conquest, colonization, and consolidation of the trans-Appalachian frontier. Not a story of paradise lost, this is a book about possibilities lost.
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- Professor Stephen Aron
Jul 8, 1996 · In his book How the West Was Lost, Stephen Aron explains the transformation of Kentucky during the lives of Daniel Boone and Henry Clay. While their lives overlapped by about 40 years, they lived in very different worlds.
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Stephen Aron has written a masterly account of the settlement and development of Kentucky from the late eighteenth century through the early nineteenth. Aron chooses as his parameters the overlapping lives of two archetypal Kentuckians, Daniel Boone and Henry Clay...
Mar 19, 1999 · How the West was Lost is an insightful and accessible book, one that should have an appeal beyond the professional historian. A brief review does scant justice to the subtlety and thoroughness with which Aron details the mentalities and motivations of the historical actors in the drama of Kentucky settlement.
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- Reprint
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- 9780.8B
Mar 19, 1999 · Seeking to explain why these dreams were not realized, Stephen Aron shows us what did happen during Kentucky's tumultuous passage from Daniel Boone's world to Henry...
How the West Was Lost engages the reader; it actually asks us to think about the issues it raises rather than accept the author's conclusions as a definitive last word on them. Aron has written a book that demands that attention be paid to trans-Appalachia's important role in the conquest of North America while it underscores the contested ...
- Stephen Aron
