The Men Who United the States: The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America
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Simon Winchester. The Men Who United the States: The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America
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Dedication
Epigraph
MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Illustrations noted as “(pd.)” are in the public domain
AUTHOR’S NOTE
PREFACE: THE PURE PHYSICS of UNION
A VIEW ACROSS THE RIDGE
DRAWING A LINE IN THE SAND
PEERING THROUGH THE TREES
THE FRONTIER AND THE THESIS
THE WOOD WAS BECOME GRASS
ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SIOUX
FIRST LADY OF THE PLAINS
HIGH PLAINS RAFTERS
PASSING THE GATEWAY
SHORELINE PASSAGE
THE LASTING BENEFIT OF HARMONY
THE SCIENCE THAT CHANGED AMERICA
DRAWING THE COLORS OF ROCKS
THE WELLSPRING OF KNOWLEDGE
THE TAPESTRY OF UNDERNEATH
SETTING THE LURES
OFF TO SEE THE ELEPHANT
THE WEST, REVEALED
THE SINGULAR FIRST ADVENTURE OF KAPURATS
THE MEN WHO GAVE US YELLOWSTONE
DIAMONDS, SEX, AND RACE
JOURNEYS TO THE FALL LINE
THE STREAMS BEYOND THE HILLS
THE PIVOT AND THE FEATHER
THE FIRST BIG DIG
THE WEDDED WATERS OF NEW YORK
THE LINKMAN COMETH
THAT OL’ MAN RIVER
MAY THE ROADS RISE UP
RAIN, STEAM, AND SPEED
THE ANNIHILATION OF THE IN-BETWEEN
THE IMMORTAL LEGACY OF CRAZY JUDAH
MAJOR EISENHOWER’S EPIPHANIC EXPEDITION
THE COLOSSUS OF ROADS
AND THEN WE LOOKED UP
THE TWELVE-WEEK CROSSING
TO GO, BUT NOT TO MOVE
THE MAN WHO TAMED THE LIGHTNING
THE SIGNAL POWER OF HUMAN SPEECH
WITH POWER FOR ONE AND ALL
LIGHTING THE CORN, POWERING THE PRAIRIE
THE TALK OF THE NATION
MAKING MONEY FROM AIR
TELEVISION: THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE
THE ALL OF SOME KNOWLEDGE
EPILOGUE
Footnotes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SEARCHABLE TERMS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY SIMON WINCHESTER
About the Publisher
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‘Simon Winchester is one of the quintessentially English writers who will go anywhere, literally and figuratively … because of his amateur status, boldness and decidedly nonacademic approach to history, [he] achieves something remarkable here’
Literary Review
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On the 100th meridian itself, in the midplains, there is more of a mix. In what is now Nebraska, say, with its wide, empty farm fields, Willa Cather’s famous “shaggy coat of the prairie” has a pile six feet high at least, made of deep big bluestem, Panicum witchgrass, wild rye, perennial tussock grasses like yellow Indiangrass, and a weave of flowering timothy and blue grama. (The last is a prairie grass that currently displays its own limitations, for it manages at once to be sufficiently abundant to be the official state grass of Colorado and yet is classified as endangered only five hundred miles east in Illinois, whose western counties, if not quite the Great Plains, are very much a part of the tallgrass prairie.)
Lewis and Clark saw all of these grasses—even timothy, the only non-native of the group, which had been introduced from Europe more than a century before and had spread across the nation with astonishing speed. But one plant they would not have seen, despite its now being a near-legendary symbol of the plains—was tumbleweed.
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