The American Frontier

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Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Summary

In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement. The first bold steps of Lewis and Clark in 1804 inspired the emergence of a nation in a momentous century of migration and settlement. During the next few decades, while Texas and California fought to be free of Mexican rule, the slow spread westward began: the Mormons in Utah, the ‘49ers in California, and the development of stage routes, railways, and other overland trails. With the end of the Civil War, in 1865, people of all nations and tongues sped to the West--the pioneers, trappers, entrepreneurs, buffalo hunters, miners, soldiers, gamblers, cowboys, lawmen, gunfighters.

Table of Contents

I OPENING THE WEST
6(38)
II THE OPPORTUNISTS
44(34)
III FRONTIER POLITICS
78(20)
IV THE CLASH OF RED & WHITE
98(28)
V FRONTIER COMMUNITY
126(34)
VI CRIME & PUNISHMENT
160(32)
VII LIFE ON THE RANGE
192(34)
VIII THE END OF THE OLD WEST
226(26)
INDEX & PICTURE CREDITS 252-256(4)

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