Word: arapaho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around the South Platte as a means of describing nothing less than the evolution of the American West. When he has disposed of prehistory, Michener introduces his first human character, an Arapaho warrior named Lame Beaver, born in 1747. By the time the book arrives at 1972-with doleful references to Watergate and the ecological crisis-Michener has some 70-odd more chief human characters, along with hundreds of bit players. They include all the tribes of the West, Homerically described...