Alan Axelrod

An international, historic dictionary includes such significant figures as Julius Caesar, Henry II, Joseph Brant, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, Geronimo, and Colin Powell

"The Encyclopedia focuses on the people and peoples of the West, approaching the region as a collection of multiethnic frontiers and as the spawning ground for an array of industries and enterprises that each gave rise to its own culture and carried with it important ecological consequences." --Page xi.

Portraits of the Civil War in photographs, diaries, and letters.