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The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks F 591 .B55
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981.
- Series:
- New American nation series
- The New American nation series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--History--1848-1860.
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- United States--Territorial expansion.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages illustrations 22 cm.
- Edition:
- [1st ed.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Harper [1956]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981. Far Western frontier, 1830-1860.
- OCLC:
- 485705
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