The American military frontiers
Subtitle: the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900
By: Robert Wooster.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826338433
Subjects: United States. -- Army -- History -- 19th century; United States. -- Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History, Military -- 19th century; United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley; title: Sword of the nation; title: Sharpening the nation's sword; title: Asserting national sovereignty; title: The wars of Indian removal; title: Agent of manifest destiny; title: Constabularies in blue; title: Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union; title: Civil wars in the borderlands; title: The regulars return; title: Testing the peace policy; title: Conquest of a continent; title: Epilogue : the long frontier.