Into the West : The Story of Its People

xxiv, 494pp, central section of black and white photographic plates. Quarter bound in purple cloth over brown paper-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Bumped spine ends. Outer text block edge untrimmed. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has 0.5cm closed tear at spine head, has seom shelf wear, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. 8vo. Full-scale history of the people of the American West from the ancestral Paleo-Indians to the Spanish conquistadors and settlers, to the gold rushers, to the myriads who came from every direction in the twentieth century right up to the late 1990s.