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Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion
Reginald Horsman
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Description for Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion
Hardcover. When settlers began advancing across North America, they endured great hardships but for the most part did not go hungry. With an inexhaustible supply of wildlife and an abundance of vegetation, even the poorest lived comfortably. This book offers an account of food and drink in the winning of the West. Num Pages: 368 pages, 25 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 726.
When settlers began advancing across North America, they endured great hardships but for the most part did not go hungry. With a seemingly inexhaustible supply of wildlife and an abundance of vegetation, even the poorest lived comfortably.""Feast or Famine"" is the first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West, describing the sustenance of successive generations of western pioneers. Drawing on journals of settlers and travelers - as well as a lifetime of research on the American West - Reginald Horsman examines more than one hundred years of history, from the first advance of explorers into ... Read more
When settlers began advancing across North America, they endured great hardships but for the most part did not go hungry. With a seemingly inexhaustible supply of wildlife and an abundance of vegetation, even the poorest lived comfortably.""Feast or Famine"" is the first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West, describing the sustenance of successive generations of western pioneers. Drawing on journals of settlers and travelers - as well as a lifetime of research on the American West - Reginald Horsman examines more than one hundred years of history, from the first advance of explorers into ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826217899
SKU
V9780826217899
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Ref
99-15
About Reginald Horsman
Reginald Horsman is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and author of eleven other books, including Frontier Doctor: William Beaumont, America's First Great Medical Scientist (University of Missouri Press), and, most recently, The New Republic: The United States of America, 1789-1815.
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