Color illustration on front cover four superimposed vignettes: face of a man in a hat and red bandana, woman in a red dress holding a rifle, man in a grey shirt and brown vest embracing a woman with red hair and red dress, and three men brandishing guns on horseback.
Color illustration on front cover four superimposed vignettes: face of a man in a hat and red bandana, poker game, man holding a rifle in front of a fire, and man in a shirt slipping off his shoulder, embracing a woman with brown hair and red dress.
Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: head and neck portrait of man wearing brown western hat and red bandana holding a pistol in his proper right hand; bare-chested man wearing black pants embracing woman wearing orange and white dress; man in western clothing crouched down next to his horse in a grassy field with another horseman in the distance.
Color illustration on front cover of three superimposed vignettes: head and neck portrait of man wearing white western hat and red bandana; bare-chested man wearing black pants embracing woman wearing red and white dress; man wearing western clothing facing a group of men on horseback.
Slocum has been hired to deliver a herd of cattle from Fort Laramie to Wyoming--and keep them from being stolen by the notorious Hawkins gang. But cattle rustling's only one of the gang's dirty deeds. They're killing the Shoshone with something worse than bullets: bad whiskey.
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.