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In this particular panoramic tale of manifest destiny, Stephen Moran comes of age with the young country that he crosses on the Union Pacific, equally the railroad unites the continent. Propelled westward from his Brooklyn neighborhood and the killing fields of the Civil War to the Battle of Little Big Horn, he befriends Walt Whitman, becomes a bugler on President Lincoln's funeral train, apprentices with frontier photographer William Henry Jackson, and stalks General George Custer. When he comes in person with Crazy Horse his life will be spared but his dreams haunted for the others of his days. By turns elegiac and comic, American Meteor is a novel of adventure, ideas, and mourning: a unique vision of America's fabulous and murderous history.
