Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/821690 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion Author: Elliott West Narrator: Christopher Grove Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 23 hours 37 minutes Release date: October 22, 2024 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in History In Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails, telegraph wires, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. Unprecedented exploration uncovered the West's extraordinary resources, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the listener through the rippling, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life.