Bernard DeVoto





Bernard DeVoto

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born
in Ogden, Utah, The United States
January 11, 1897

died
November 13, 1955

gender
male

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About this author

Bernard Augustine DeVoto was an American historian and author who specialized in the history of the American West.


Average rating: 4.16 · 7,155 ratings · 478 reviews · 25 distinct works · Similar authors
Across the Wide Missouri
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1947 — 5 editions
The Year of Decision 1846
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 1943 — 8 editions
The Course of Empire
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1952 — 9 editions
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
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3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1948 — 8 editions
Mark Twain's America
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1932 — 5 editions
The Western Paradox: A Cons...
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4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
The Journals of Lewis and C...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,769 ratings — published 1905 — 38 editions
DeVoto's West: History, Con...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
Mountain Time
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions
The Easy Chair
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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“One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.”
Bernard DeVoto