Megan Kate Nelson Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove

The exploration of the American West is filled with untold stories and of a diversity of peoples that we didn't learn about in our history classes. Come learn from historian Megan Kate Nelson as she talks about her new book, The Westerners.

The Westerners is an epic counter-history of the American West told in two interwoven stories. The first reveals the captivating lives of women and men moving through the American West—Indigenous peoples, Black Americans, Mexican Americans, and Canadian and Asian immigrants—in the 19th century. The second tracks the attempts of many Americans to erase these westerners from history