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Dreams of El Dorado: A History of The American West Donate and gratitudeIn Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay at home cousins to shame and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of