Beyond the American pale
Subtitle: the Irish in the West, 1845-1910
By: David M. Emmons.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780806141282
Subjects: Irish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century; Irish Americans -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 20th century; Catholics -- West (U.S.) -- History; Immigrants -- West (U.S.) -- History; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Migration, Internal -- United States -- History; West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century; West (U.S.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century; West (U.S.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The American pale; title: pt. 1. Unwelcome strangers : the Irish and the American West; title: From Ireland to America's mythic West : William L. O'Brien's working-class grand tour; title: Irrepressible conflicts : systems of slavery in the Civil War era; title: Slavery, the Irish, and Western America; title: Most unlikely Westerners; title: Savage twins : Indians and Irish on the border; title: pt. 2. An alternate frontier : the Irish in the American West; title: Border wars : clustered Irish across the meridian; title: Finding a "fair living" : patterns of Irish migration and settlement in the West; title: The worlds the Irish made : transplanting the townlands to Western America; title: An alternate frontier : the Irish strain in labor's Western American heartland; title: Epilogue: A different kind of West; title: Appendix: Western communities that sent contributions to support Irish nationalism (1880-1882, 1905).