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A Nation moving West readings in the history of the American frontier /
Facets of the pioneer experience on the changing American frontier from the Revolution to 1900.
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[1966]
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viii, 366 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Contents:
- 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.