The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: The New American nation series
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1956
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History -- To 1848.; West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860.; United States -- Territorial expansion.
Description: This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment.
Notes: Includes bibliography.