The Frontier in American development, essays in honor of Paul Wallace Gates. / Editor: David M. Ellis; associate editors: Lee Benson [and others.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999.

Benson, Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--United States.

Public lands.

United States.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxx, 425 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1969]

Contents:

Foreword, by F. Merk.

The historian as mythmaker: Turner and the closed frontier, by L. Benson.

Senators, sectionalism, and the "Western" measures of the Republican Party, by A. G. Bogue.

The Homestead clause in railroad land grants, by D. M. Ellis.

Congress looks west: liberal ideology and public land policy in the nineteenth century, by M. E. Young.

Maine and its public domain: land disposal on the northeastern frontier, by D. C. Smith.

Frontier attitudes and debt collection in western New York, by R. W. Silsby.

The mineral lands of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, by I. D. Neu.

Vicissitudes of an absentee landlord; a case study, by H. Cohen.

The Scott farms in a new agriculture, 1900-1919, by M. B. Bogue.

Barrier to settlement: British Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1794, by R. F. Berkhofer, Jr.

The Ohio-Mississippi flatboat trade; some reconsiderations, by H. N. Scheiber.

The impact of traders' claims on the American fur trade, by J. L. Clayton.

British immigrants in the old Northwest, 1815-1860, by C. Erickson.

The great speculation; an interpretation of mid-continent pioneering, by L. E. Decker.

The American West and foreign markets, 1850-1900, by M. Rothstein.

Works by Paul Wallace Gates, by G. P. Colman.

Notes:

Bibliographical footnotes.

OCLC:

6025