The Light Shines from the West: A Western Perspective on the Growth of America

6 X 9

272 pages

HARDCOVER

Robert C. Baron is a historian, scientist, and the author or contributor to 30 books. He was program manager for the Mariner 2 (Venus) and the Mariner 4 (Mars) onboard space computers. In 1971, he founded Prime Computer, which became one of the Fortune 500 largest American companies, and was its chief executive officer. He is the founder of Fulcrum Publishing, Films by Fulcrum, the International League of Conservation Writers, and the 3rd Third, an educational program for older Americans. Charlotte and Bob Baron are the 2018 recipients of the Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community by the Authors Guild Foundation.

Contributors include: Elizabeth Darby, Page Lambert, Dr. Bruce Paton, Daniel Wildcat, and Donald A. Yale

9781682751640

APRIL 2018

Winner Best Book in American History 

—2019 Independent Press Association 

 

Praise for The Light Shines from the West

“The Light Shines from the West weaves the history of the First Peoples and the role Women, politics, migration, and the economy have played in this dynamic, vital half of our country. A MUST read!”

—Patricia Schroeder, Former Colorado Congresswoman, Past CEO, Association of American Publishers

 

“The Light Shines from the West paints the wonderfully complex historic story of the American West, by integrating social, economic, cultural, environmental, and political perspectives into a fascinating and needed understanding of everyone’s West. I greatly enjoyed the read, and the various approaches to the American West.”

—John L. Gray, Director, Smithsonian American History Museum

 

“A readable and comprehensive book that restores the American West to its true place in American history.”

—Dick Lamm, Former Governor of Colorado, author of The Brave New World of Health Care

 

“The Light Shines from the West is an intelligent, comprehensive, interpretive collection of numerous diversely penetrating influences of the region on the history and future of the United States. It is destined to become major source material about the American West and our country in general.”

—Bobby Bridger, author, Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West