Eyewitness to the American West From the First Frontier to the New Age Seekers in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen

Turns you into the eyewitness at places & times, bringing together firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, memoirs, & reports. Brings together conquistadors & missionaries, venture capitalists & new age therapists, to create a kaleidoscope of American history. The Old WestÓ is just part of a 500-year history in which the conquistadors are intimately connected to the people who created Silicon Valley. These eyewitness reports tie the Old West's shifting frontiers with the modern West's evolving social patterns. The first European to see the Pacific Ocean, the founder of Texas, & the man responsible for Silicon Valley's location all fled west to escape creditors after going bankrupt.