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A Nation moving West; readings in the history of the American frontier, edited by Robert W. Richmond and Robert W. Mardock.

Summary:

Facets of the pioneer experience on the changing American frontier from the Revolution to 1900.

Record details

  • Physical Description: viii, 366 pages 22 cm
  • Publisher: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press [1966]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360).
Formatted Contents Note:
Beyond the Appalachians -- The Old Northwest and the Upper Mississippi Valley -- The Southern frontier -- Frontier conflict: Indian fighting and the War of 1812 -- Eastern Indians and the removal policy -- Roads and waterways: The Appalachians to the Mississippi -- Customs and culture on the Early Frontier -- The Fur trade -- Exploring the West -- The Road to Manifest Destiny -- The Great Western Trails -- The Mormons and the settlement of Utah -- The mining frontier -- Roads and waterways: Beyond the Mississippi -- The Civil War in the West -- Western Indians and the peace policy -- Railroads in the West -- Cattle Country: Trail, town and ranch -- Settlement of the Great Plains -- The Pacific Far West -- The advancing social and cultural frontier.
Subject:
West (U.S.) > History > Sources.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Frontier and pioneer life.
United States, West.
United States > Migration, Internal.
United States, West > History.
Genre:
History.
Sources.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library F 591 .R5 1966 269535 Stacks Available -