From the Publisher
12 x 9 1/2 trim. 134 illus., 3 photos, 2 maps
About the Author
GEORGE A. MILES has been William Robertson Coe Curator of the Yale Collection of Western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library since 1981. Co-author of Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past (1992), Creating America (1992), and America Pictured to the Life: Illustrated Works from the Paul Mellon Bequest (2002), Mr. Miles has taught classes in the history of the American West and the history of American Indians at Yale as well as classes in American historical bibliography at Columbia University and the University of Virginia's Rare Books School.
