Title: Westward expansion; a history of the American frontier.
Authors: Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1967
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Mississippi River Valley; United States Territorial expansion; United States History; Mississippi River Valley History; West (U.S.) History
Contents: The frontier hypothesis -- Europe's first frontier, 1492-1615 -- The southern frontier, 1600-1700 -- The northern frontier, 1600-1700 -- The Old West, 1700-1763 -- The French barrier, 1615-1763 -- British western policy, 1763-1776 -- Settlement crosses the mountains, 1763-1776 -- The West in the American Revolution, 1776-1783 -- The western problem, 1783-1790 -- The West in American diplomacy, 1783-1803 -- Settling the Appalachian plateau, 1795-1812 -- The West in the War of 1812, 1812-1815 -- Settling the Lake Plains, 1815-1850 -- Settling the Gulf plains, 1815-1850 -- The economics of sectionalism, 1815-1837 -- The emergence of the sectional pattern, 1815-1817 -- The shifting sectional pattern, 1837-1850 -- Railroads and sectionalism, 1837-1850 -- The natural setting -- The Spanish barrier, 1540-1776 -- The traders' frontier, 1776-1840 -- The Mississippi Valley frontier, 1803-1840 -- The annexation of Texas, 1820-1845 -- The occupation of Oregon, 1825-1846 -- The Conquest of California, 1825-1846 -- The Great Basin frontier, 1830-1846 -- The conquest of California, 1830-1846 -- The war with Mexico, 1846-1850 -- The West and slavery, 1850-1860 -- The miners' frontier, 1858-1875 -- The transportation frontier, 1858-1884 -- The Indian barrier, 1860-1887 -- The cattlemen's frontier, 1865-1887 -- Opening the Great Plains, 1870-1890 -- The Farmers frontier, 1865-1887 -- The agrarian revolt, 1873-1896 -- The frontier heritage.