People of the plains and mountains
Subtitle: essays in the history of the West. Dedicated to Everett Dick.
By: Edited by Ray Allen Billington, with the assistance of Vern Carner.
Contributors: Dick, Everett Newfon, 1898-; Billington, Ray Allen, 1903- ed.
Series: Contributions in American history,; no. 25
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Dick, Everett Newfon, 1898-; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hicks, J. D. Everett Dick: teacher, scholar, churchman.; title: Clark, T. D. Social and cultural continuity in American frontiering.; title: Mattes, M. J. New horizons on the Old Oregon Trail.; title: Jackson, W. T. Pioneer life on the plains and in the mines: a comparison.; title: Hollon, W. E. Frontier violence: another look.; title: Jordan, P. D. The town marshal and the police.; title: Prucha, F. P. Indian policy reform and American protestantism, 1880-1900.; title: Gates, P. W. Corporation farming in California.; title: Rhoads, J. B. The taming of the West: military archives as a source for the social history of the trans-Mississippi region to 1900.; title: Appendix: the writings of Everett Dick (p. 204-213)