Western America
Subtitle: the exploration, settlement, and development of the region beyond the Mississippi
By: by Le Roy R. Hafen and Carl Coke Rister.
Contributors: Rister, Carl Coke, 1889-1955, joint author.
Edition: 2d ed.
Series: Prentice-Hall history series
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 695
Subjects: West (U.S.) -- History; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
Description: Includes information on transcontinental railroad, missions in California, stagecoaches, steamboats, gold discovery and the forty-niners, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.