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New York Times Bestseller
A Wall Street Journal Top Ten Book of the Year
A True West Magazine Best Historical Non-Fiction Book and Best Author of the Year
Western Heritage Award for "Outstanding Nonfiction Book"
Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Historical Nonfiction
Winner of the…
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1 author picked The Undiscovered Country as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book showed how much of the history of the American West was consciously created by its most famous participants. Trying to understand the motivations behind the creation of this epic story is fascinating to me. It's unsurprising that some of the most uncomfortable aspects of this story have been deliberately left out. This fact too tells us a lot about ourselves.
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