| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
x, 909 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1: Commission -- 2: Land -- 3: Inhabitants -- 4: Many coups of lame beaver -- 5: Yellow apron -- 6: Wagon and the elephant -- 7: Massacre -- 8: Cowboys -- 9: Hunters -- 10: Smell of sheep -- 11: Crime -- 12: Central beet -- 13: Drylands -- 14: November elegy. |
| Summary |
Product Description: A stunning panorama of the West, CENTENNIAL is an enthralling celebration of our country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. From the Native Americans, the migrating white men and women, the cowboys, and the foreigners, it is a story of trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters--all caught up in the dramatic events and violent conflicts that shaped the destiny of our legendary West. |
| Subject |
West (U.S.) -- Fiction.
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Eastern Shore (Md. and Va.) -- History -- Fiction.
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Colorado -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Western stories.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-1997. Centennial. [1st ed.] New York, Random House [1974] (OCoLC)682374306 |
| ISBN |
039447970X |
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9780394479705 |
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0394493451 lim. ed. |
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9780394493459 lim. ed. |
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