The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860

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The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860 / by Ray Allen Billington.

Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981 (Author).

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This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment.

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Physical Description: 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: New York, Harper [1956]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:: The Mexican borderlands -- The road to Sante 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 -- The California Gold Rush -- The miners' frontier moves Eastward -- The reuniting of East and West.

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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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