Centennial

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. A stunning panorama of the West, Centennial is an entralling celebration of out country, brimming with the glory and the greatness of the American past that only bestselling author James Michener could bring to stunning life. Here is the story of the land and its people--of Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Commanche and Pawnee enemies: of Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country in Pennsylvania: and of the cowboy Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. 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