![]() "A subject this monumental demands prose to match it, and I am pleased that to report that, in this sprawling epic, H. Dreams of El Dorado is the latest reason to think of Brands as America's go-to historian."―Stephen Harrigan, author of Big Wonderful Thing and The Gates of the Alamo ![]() Brands, who has the vision and supreme narrative skill to braid the chaotic tendrils that make up the past into a story that is almost as exciting for its coherence as it is for the heroic and heartbreaking events it so vividly renders. Fortunately the author of this book is H.W. ![]() "The expansion of the United States across what would become the American West is the sort of sprawling, tumultuous epic that is best told by a calm and concentrated mind. A New York Times-bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class. ![]() chair in history at the University of Texas at Austin. ![]()
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