The Frontier challenge; responses to the trans-Mississippi West.
Clark, John Garretson,1932-ed.
Anderson, George LaVerne,1905-
University of Kansas.
Lawrence, University Press of Kansas
[1971]
Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969.
Includes bibliographies.
Introduction, by J. G. Clark.--The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy.--The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R. W. Paul.--The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen.--American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F. P. Prucha.--Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R. W. Johannsen.--Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P. W. Gates.--Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W. T. Hagan.--To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A. G. Bogue.--The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O. O. Winther.--Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G. L. Anderson.