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The Settlers' War : the Struggle for the Texas Frontier in the 1860s.
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
Caxton Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance, sparking a brutal struggle for possession of Texas's hills and prairies that continued for decades. During the 1860s, however, the bloodiest decade in the western Indian wars, there were no large-scale battles in Texas between the army and the Indians. Ins. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (464 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780870045028 0870045024 0870045032 9780870045035 087004494X 9780870044946 |