#american-west

#american-west

These women artists were in museum collections, but they were barely shown. The challenge was to do enough research to find common themes and bring them together.

Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody - the gang of American frontiersmen is all here in The Undiscovered Country: Triumph, Tragedy, and the Shaping of the American West. The valuable new volume is by historian Paul Andrew Hutton, an award-winning author, documentary writer, and a Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the University of New Mexico. Hutton's 565-page history, a New York Times bestseller published last year by Dutton, covers the American frontier from the mid-18th century to 1900.

Wild horses graze on the banks of Washoe Lake, their dark manes glistening in the cloudless sky, creating a romantic setting in Carson City.