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Essays on the history of the American West / edited by Stephen Salsbury.

Salsbury, Stephen. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0030793858
ISBN: 9780030793851
Physical Description: viii, 408 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Hinsdale, Ill. : Dryden Press, �1975.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Toward a reorientation of western history: continuity and environment / Earl Pomeroy -- The mission as a frontier institution in the Spanish-American colonies / Herbert E. Bolton -- Land, population and the evolution of New England society 1630-1790 / Kenneth Lockridge -- Indian cultural adjustment to European civilization / Nancy Oestreich Lurie -- Pequots and Puritans: the causes of the wars of 1637 / Alden T. Vaughan -- Indian removal and land allotment: the Civilized Tribes and Jacksonian justice / Mary E. Young.

(cont.) Righting the century of dishonor: Indian reform as a reaffirmation of conservative values / Ralph W. Goodwin -- Farm-making costs and the "safety valve": 1850-60 / Clarence H. Danhof -- A post mortem on the labor-safety-valve theory / Fred A. Shannon -- The British corn crisis of 1845-46 and the Oregon treaty / Gerald Ashford -- The Southern expansionists of 1846 / John Hope Franklin -- The Mississippi Valley and the Constitution, 1815-29 / Curtis Nettels -- Andrew Jackson and the rise of Southwestern democracy / Thomas P. Abernathy -- The pattern of migration and settlement on the Southern frontier / Frank L. Owsley.

(cont.) The Oregon of the land speculator as a frontier type / Ray Allen Billington -- Preemption, a frontier triumph / Roy M. Robbins -- The Iowa claims clubs: symbol and substance / Allan G. Bogue -- Pivot of American vigilantism: the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856 / Richard Maxwell Brown -- The evolution of the cow-puncher / Owen Wister -- Negro labor in the Western cattle industry, 1866-1900 / Kenneth W. Porter.