Record details

• ISBN: 060904720 (pbk.)
• ISBN: 0061330124
• ISBN: 9780061330124
• Physical Description: xix, 324 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.
• Edition: 1st Harper torchbook ed.
• Publisher: New York : Harper & Row, 1962.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Harper colophon books."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Mexican borderlands -- The road to Santa Fe -- The era of the mountain men -- The coming of the pioneers -- The overland trails -- Texas: revolution and republic -- Manifest destiny -- The West in the Mexican War -- Mormons move westward -- The California gold rush -- The miners' frontier moves eastward -- The reuniting of east and west.

Action Note:

commitment to retain 20151204

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Subject:

West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
West (U.S.) > History > 1848-1860.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
United States > Territorial expansion.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Territorial expansion.
United States.
United States, West.

Genre:

History.

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