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Centennial

James A. Michener

Paperback | Pages: 1056 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 38098 Users | 818 Reviews

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Original Title:	Centennial
ISBN:	0449214192 (ISBN13: 9780449214190)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Centennial, Colorado(United States)

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Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener’s magnificent saga of the West is an enthralling celebration of the frontier. Brimming with the glory of America’s past, the story of Colorado—the Centennial State—is manifested through its people: Lame Beaver, the Arapaho chieftain and warrior, and his Comanche and Pawnee enemies; Levi Zendt, fleeing with his child bride from the Amish country; the cowboy, Jim Lloyd, who falls in love with a wealthy and cultured Englishwoman, Charlotte Seccombe. In Centennial, trappers, traders, homesteaders, gold seekers, ranchers, and hunters are brought together in the dramatic conflicts that shape the destiny of the legendary West—and the entire country.

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Title	:	Centennial
Author	:	James A. Michener
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 1056 pages
Published	:	February 12th 1987 by Fawcett (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Westerns

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A history of the American west, written in celebration of Americas bicentennial. Centennial focuses on the area that would become Colorado, with little bits in Wyoming, St. Louis, and Pennsylvania. Michener goes back as far as the formation of the land, and the lives of the dinosaurs, and the animals that inhabited the land before man arrived, but that is just two chapters. The story really starts with the Arapahoe brave, Lame Beaver. From there we move to the trappers and mountain men,

I was excited to read this, because Colorado (where we live) is the Centennial State, and this is a book about the settling of Northern Colorado (where we live). How often do you get to open a 900 page book and see your town in the center of the map on the first page?My problems were two-fold:1. He literally started from the ground up. After 100 pages of "The lava flow slowly ebbed, leaving a sizzling rent in the Pre-Cambrian earth...," I skipped ahead, to the dinosaurs. "The allosaurus raised

Another of my favorite author's-- I have yet to read one of his books I didn't thoroughly enjoy. This is a saga of a family out west and very entertaining.

Stories set against historical backdrops or that contain historical threads in some manner -- OK, I'm all right with those. But, in general, the idea of historical fiction makes me bristle. The notion of reading a speculative history such as, say, Lincoln by Gore Vidal versus, say, a factual documentary non-fiction account by, say, DK Goodwin, would have me decisively favoring the latter, if one is going to set aside time for such an attempt. When history is at hand, it's nonfiction for me.

If you've ever stood in a spot and wondered who had stood in that spot before you, this book is for you. Michener seamlessly weaves together the lives of all the past residents of the town Centennial, while simultaneously tackling political, social and ecological changes. It is a long book, but he put the same amount of effort into developing the characters of the last story as he did with his first, and never once did I feel like he was rushing a plot. With each new generation we are able to

I have read this book 5 times. So inspirational to me, I wrote a saga of my home state of Utah in a Michenerian style. Love this author. He leaves no stone unturned. This is a book that you live as you read it. It isn't just a "read". I lived with that family of beaver, the Indians, the settlers, the cowboys, and the environmentalist down to every thought the had and feeling they felt. Even the beaver made me cry. Michener is more than a story teller, he is a historical scientist and a

Michener stayed with our family for two weeks when he was writing this book. We had a cattle ranch in southeast Wyoming and he was doing some of his ranching research with us. I was just a teenager then, but I remember him vividly. He asked the sort of question that would allow someone to respond thoughtfully and in great length. He would smile and listen and never write anything down, but I could see him filing away every word that was spoken. He read at least 200 books for every book he wrote.