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Pillar of Cloud
Pillar of Cloud
Author: Jackson Burgess
"Whatever a man could want, fine farmland, up in the high valleys. Fur-game and table-game as thick as fleas. Timber. Plenty of pure water. There's gold, so I've heard. . . . The Santa Fe Trail runs south of the mountains. The Oregon Road crosses them up north. In between, lies the country I'm talking about. It something to see, I tell you." — It...  more »
ISBN: 277445
Publication Date: 1957
Pages: 254
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Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This book shows the ways in which seven people saw and interpreted the western frontier just before the civil war; how the presence of that frontier affected or crystallized their ideas of themselves and each other and how their ideals betrayed them or saved them when they attacked the frontier.


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