The Frontier Challenge : Responses to the TransMississippi West

The Frontier Challenge Responses to the TransMississippi West

The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians f...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: University of Kansas (-)
Other Authors: Clark, John G. 1932-2000 (Editor), Anderson, George L. (George LaVerne), 1905-1971 (-), Clark, John G. (John Garretson), 1932-2000, ed (ed)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, University Press of Kansas 1971
[1971]
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > History.
History of the Americas
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009632337906719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, by J. G. Clark
  • The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy
  • The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R. W. Paul
  • The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen
  • American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F. P. Prucha
  • Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R. W. Johannsen
  • Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P. W. Gates
  • Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W. T. Hagan
  • To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A. G. Bogue
  • The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O. O. Winther
  • Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G. L. Anderson.

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