The Last American Frontier
Publisher: Simon Publications
Published: July 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9781931313544
Subjects: American history; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 19th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - 19th Century/Old West
First sentence: THE story of the United State is that of a series of frontiers which the hand of man has reclaimed from nature and the savage, and which courage and foresight hove gradually transformed from desert waste to virile commonwealth.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Westward Movement; title: 2. The Indian Frontier; title: 3. Iowa and the new Northwest; title: 4. The Santa Fe Trail; title: 5. The Oregon Trail; title: 6. Overland with the Mormons; title: 7. California and the Forty-niners; title: 8. Kansas and the Indian Frontier; title: 9. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”; title: 10. From Arizona to Montana; title: 11. The Overland Mail; title: 12. The Engineers’ Frontier; title: 13. The union Pacific Railroad; title: 14. The Plains in the Civil War; title: 15. The Cheyenne War; title: 16. The Sioux War; title: 17. The Peace Commission and the Open Way; title: 18. Black Kettle’s Last Raid; title: 19. The First of the Railways; title: 20. The New Indian Policy; title: 21. The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull; title: 22. Letting in the Population; title: 23. Bibliographical Note