Frontiers of the Northwest
Subtitle: a history of the upper Missouri valley
By: Harold E. Briggs
Publisher: [D. Appleton-Century]; P. Smith
Published: 1950
Place of publication: [New York]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 629
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-612).
Table of contents: title: I. The Frontier of the Miner; title: Introduction; title: The gold rush to colorado; title: Gold in idaho; title: The gold frontier in montana; title: The gold frontier in wyoming; title: The black hills gold rush; title: The search for a new gold frontier; title: Mining and prospecting on the gold frontier; title: Transportation and travel to the gold fields; title: Boom prices in the gold camps; title: The characters in the pageant; title: The calamity jane myth; title: Saloons and hurdy-gurdies; title: Gamblers and games of chance; title: Cultural life; title: Education; title: Religion; title: The theater on the mining frontier; title: Justice in the mining camps; title: II. The Frontier of the Buffalo; title: Introduction; title: Buffalo east of the mississippi; title: Buffalo in the red river valley; title: The buffalo range of the southwest; title: Accounts of early explorers and travelers; title: Hunting the buffalo; title: Preparations of buffalo skins; title: Types of robes; title: Buffalo and the early fur trade; title: Trading for robes; title: Missouri steamboating and the buffalo trade; title: DIvision into northern and southern herds; title: The southern herd is slaughtered; title: The buffalo frontier in the northwest; title: Professional hunters; title: Buffalo bones; title: III. The Frontier of the Cattle-Rancher; title: Introduction; title: Early cattle in wyoming and montana; title: Early cattle-ranching in the territory of dakota; title: The cattle of texas; title: The northern drive; title: The northwest as a cattle area; title: Developments in Wyoming; title: Developments in montana; title: Developments in dakota; title: A beef bonanza; title: A meat-packing experiment on the western plains in the eighties; title: England as a possible cattle market; title: The winter of 1886-87; title: Theodore roosevelt as a cattleman; title: Prices and profits; title: Foreigners and foreign capital; title: Improvement of range stock; title: Cattle associations; title: Cattle associations in action; title: The indian menace; title: The cattle thief; title: Life on the range; title: The advance of the agricultural frontier; title: The johnson county war; title: The end of the open range; title: IV. The Frontier of the Sheep-Rancher; title: Introduction; title: Early sheep-raising in the northwest; title: The expansion of sheep-ranching; title: Profits and prices; title: The struggle between sheepmen and cattlemen; title: The sheep herder; title: Horse-ranching in the northwest; title: Horse thieves; title: V. The Frontier of Settlement; title: Introduction; title: Early settlements and town-sites in dakota; title: Early settlement in the valley of the red river of the north; title: Factors working against early settlement; title: Factors favoring early settlement; title: Development in dakota to 1870; title: Boom and depression in dakota, 1870-1878; title: The early settlement of wyoming; title: The early settlement of montana; title: Immigration to montana, 1870-1880; title: The dakota boom, 1879-1886; title: Settlement in montana after 1880; title: Settlement in wyoming after 1880; title: Immigration activities; title: Colonization projects; title: County-seat fights; title: Some forgotten towns; title: VI. The Frontier of Agriculture; title: Introduction; title: Agriculture in early dakota; title: Early agriculture in montana; title: Early agriculture in wyoming; title: Bonanza farming in the red river valley; title: Grasshopper plagues; title: Climatic handicaps; title: Credit and interest; title: The grange in the northwest; title: The agricultural fair; title: Towns and settlements; title: The theater on the great plains; title: Life of the frontier farmer