Great River (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Horgan
- First Published: 1954
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The tenth to the twentieth centuries
- Setting: The Southwest United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Manners or customs, Social life, Rivers or waterways, Lifestyles, Southwest, Progress, Biography, Land settlement, Geography
Form and Content
The historian and novelist Paul Horgan has often been labeled a regionalist writer, but his work is actually more concerned with transcontinental themes than local issues—especially the confrontation between the eastern half of the United States and the western. Nowhere is this confrontation clearer than in Great River: The Rio Grande in North American History. Great River, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1954, tells the story of the Rio Grande—a river that begins in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, flows through New Mexico,...
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