Milner, Clyde A., II, and Carol A. O'Connor: As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart.(Book review)

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Milner, Clyde A., II, and Carol A. O'Connor

As Big as the West: The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart

New York: Oxford University Press

448 pp., $34.95, ISBN 978-0-1951-2709-6

Publication Date: October 2008

Granville Stuart, born in what was then western Virginia in 1834, lived to the ripe old age of eighty-four, passing away in 1918. His life was full in several respects: he partook in many of the West's economic frontiers, he participated in some significant events in U.S. history, and geographically his life spanned a continent ...

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