How the American West story reveals the nation’s triumphs and tragedies

Paul Andrew Hutton’s “Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy and the Shaping of the American West” is a sweeping history covering centuries and thousands of miles, starting before the American Revolution when the “West” was what’s now considered pretty far East. 
Peter Cozzen’s “Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West” provides plenty of broad scope historical perspective about the American economy and displacement of Native