The Frontiersmen (The Old West)
By: by the editors of Time-Life Books ; with text by Paul O'Neil.
Contributors: O'Neil, Paul, 1909-
Series: The Old West
Publisher: Time-Life Books
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Alexandria, Va
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography.; Frontier and pioneer life.; Pioneers.; West (U.S.) -- History.
Description: Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 236-237.
Includes index.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: A trade-off in terror
pagenum: 6; label: 2
title: The "noble and generous" Boone
pagenum: 38; label: 3
title: A ritual of death by fire
pagenum: 72; label: 4
title: Key to the Great Lakes
pagenum: 102; label: 5
title: Stampede to the Mississippi
pagenum: 144; label: 6
title: The frontier forms a leader
pagenum: 189; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 234; title: Credits
pagenum: 234; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 236; title: Index
pagenum: 238