books.google.com - The history of the American West is full of life stories, and the fifteen essays in this collection weave a selection of those lives together to focus on the main currents in the region's history. The first five essays cover the period from contact to the mid-nineteenth century and feature Indian leaders...http://books.google.com/books/about/Western_Lives.html?id=8yXv_OdXxBUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWestern Lives