The Final Challenge

By Dale Van Every

One final push for the American people…

In this fourth and final volume of his monumental history of the frontier people of America, Dale Van Every describes the final push westward to the Pacific in a way that makes history come to life.

The story of this initial penetration of the Far West by such great figures as Lewis and Clark, the Astorians, and other hardy frontierspeople is one of the greatest and most inspiring in the whole American saga.

Dale Van Every (born 1896) turned out a number of volumes on American history, including a biography of Charles Lindbergh. Van Every was also a busy playwright in the 1920s; his Broadway offering Telling the World was filmed in 1929, whereupon the writer set up shop in Hollywood. His screenplays include the literary adaptations Trader Horn (1931) and Murders in the Rue Morgue(1932). In 1937, he shared an Oscar nomination for the film version of Kipling’sCaptains Courageous. In 1940, Dale Van Every produced the Paramount actioner Rangers of Fortunes, then returned to screenwriting, remaining in this field until 1957.