The Men Who United the States: The Amazing Stories of the Explorers, Inventors and Mavericks Who Made America. Simon Winchester
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СКАЧАТЬ and, with gratitude and respect, to the memory of

      MRS. AKIKO SATO.

       Born, Tokyo, 1932. Died, New York, 2012.

      May this small offering be her memorial.

      Epigraph

       Think of the United States today—the facts of these thirty-eight or forty empires solder’d in one—sixty or seventy millions of equals, with their lives, their passions, their future—these incalculable, modern, American, seething multitudes around us, of which we are inseparable parts!

      —WALT WHITMAN, A Backward Glance o’er Travell’d Roads (PREFACE TO THE 1888 EDITION OF Leaves of Grass)

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       List of Maps and Illustrations

       Author’s Note

       Preface: The Pure Physics of Union

       PART I: WHEN AMERICA’S STORY WAS DOMINATED BY WOOD, 1785–1805

       PART II: WHEN AMERICA’S STORY WENT BENEATH THE EARTH, 1809–1901

       The West, Revealed

       The Singular First Adventure of Kapurats

       The Men Who Gave Us Yellowstone

       Diamonds, Sex, and Race

       PART III: WHEN THE AMERICAN STORY TRAVELED BY WATER, 1803–1900

       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

       PART IV: WHEN THE AMERICAN STORY WAS FANNED BY FIRE, 1811–1956

       May the Roads Rise Up

       Rain, Steam, and Speed

       The Annihilation of the In-Between

       The Immortal Legacy of Crazy Judah

       СКАЧАТЬ