The Frontier challenge
Subtitle: responses to the trans-Mississippi West.
By: Edited by John G. Clark.
Contributors: Clark, John Garretson, 1932- ed.; Anderson, George LaVerne, 1905-; University of Kansas.
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by J. G. Clark.; title: The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy.; title: The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R. W. Paul.; title: The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen.; title: American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F. P. Prucha.; title: Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R. W. Johannsen.; title: Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P. W. Gates.; title: Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W. T. Hagan.; title: To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A. G. Bogue.; title: The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O. O. Winther.; title: Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G. L. Anderson.