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The Frontier challenge responses to the trans-Mississippi 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: University of Kansas
Otros Autores: Clark, John G. (John Garretson), 1932-2000 (Editor ), Anderson, George L. (George LaVerne), 1905-1971
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, University Press of Kansas [1971]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.