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Brands has a deft narrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirding historical events. But Dreams of El Dorado is not challenging history. It is scholarship as entertainment, history as adventure story. -- Los Angeles Review of Books The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. -- Amazon.com This is a marvelous short history of the West, rewarding both expert and neophyte readers. -- Booklist (starred review) A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. -- S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author

A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. -- S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author This is a marvelous short history of the West, rewarding both expert and neophyte readers. -- Booklist (starred review) The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. -- Amazon.com Brands has a deft narrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirding historical events. But Dreams of El Dorado is not challenging history. It is scholarship as entertainment, history as adventure story. -- Los Angeles Review of Books

"""Brands has a deft narrative touch and a talent for highlighting the human drama undergirding historical events. But Dreams of El Dorado is not challenging history. It is scholarship as entertainment, history as adventure story."" -- ""Los Angeles Review of Books"" ""The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West."" -- ""Amazon.com"" ""This is a marvelous short history of the West, rewarding both expert and neophyte readers."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best."" -- ""S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author"""

A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. W. Brands is at his sparkling best. -- S. C. Gwynne, New York Times bestselling author

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H. W. Brands is the Dickson Allen Anderson Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, and for Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His Web site is www.hwbrands.com.

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