Bernard DeVoto





Bernard DeVoto

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

died
November 13, 1955

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


Average rating: 4.15 · 4,637 ratings · 376 reviews · 25 distinct works
The Year of Decision 1846
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1943 — 10 editions
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Across the Wide Missouri
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 72 ratings4 editions
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The Course of Empire
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1952 — 7 editions
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The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
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3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1948 — 7 editions
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The Western Paradox: A Cons...
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The Journals of Lewis and C...
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4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 943 ratings — published 1905 — 34 editions
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Mark Twain's America
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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DeVoto's West: History, Con...
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions
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Mountain Time
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1947 — 2 editions
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The Letters of Bernard Devoto
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1975
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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