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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

Centennial

James A. Michener

Paperback | Pages: 1056 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 38098 Users | 818 Reviews

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

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I came to this book thinking it would span more decades and families than it did. Unlike historical sagas by Rutherford or Follett, this kept the same cast of characters for most of the chapters. Only a few families were explored, and when a character was introduced, he usually had a son/daughter almost identical to himself, so it was like reading the same story over and over for 900 pages. Characters who had been built for a hundred or more pages were killed off in a sentence, so that I had to

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

DNF @ 18% I'm close to 200 pages in and we're only up to the late 18th century. I can only imagine that once it gets to the meat of the story, the part I'm looking forward to, it's going to be tedious and far too detailed. Geology, dinosaurs, mammals, buffalo, beaver, eagles, rattlesnakes, the first Native Americans, flint knappers, Apache, Cherokee, Comanche... I should have used this to put me to sleep.



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

You could take a university course in the History of the American West and not learn as much as you can from this completely thorough fictional history by James Michener. His background research is as detailed as any writer in the genre. And he has the skill to fold those details, that history, into a fictional story that makes history come to life. I've read most of his novels and they are all exceptional, but the three that really stand out for me are Hawaii, Centennial, and The Covenant.

A magnificent epic of a book set in Colorado in the USA from prehistoric times to 1974. Taking us from the development of the different types of prehistoric animal life from dinosaurs to wolves and beavers to the arrival of man. biography of the Arapaho chieftain Lame Beaver and his rivalry with the neighboring Comnache and Cheyenne tries to to the arrival of the first European settlers. the beaver trappers Pasquinel and Alexander Mc Keag The journeys of Levi fleeing into the prairies with his