Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American WestNew in paperback What was achieved and destroyed, what was made up and forgotten in the American West as the continent was mapped, the natives were displaced, and exploits were transformed into legends? In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars figures in the West's enduring yet ever shifting mixture of myth and reality. In these twelve pieces, McMurtry explores John Wesley Powell's journey on