The Frontier in American development
Subtitle: essays in honor of Paul Wallace Gates.
By: Editor: David M. Ellis; associate editors: Lee Benson [and others.
Contributors: Gates, Paul Wallace, 1901-; Benson, Lee, ed.
Edition: 1st ed.]
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Public lands -- United States; Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, by F. Merk.; title: The historian as mythmaker: Turner and the closed frontier, by L. Benson.; title: Senators, sectionalism, and the "Western" measures of the Republican Party, by A. G. Bogue.; title: The Homestead clause in railroad land grants, by D. M. Ellis.; title: Congress looks west: liberal ideology and public land policy in the nineteenth century, by M. E. Young.; title: Maine and its public domain: land disposal on the northeastern frontier, by D. C. Smith.; title: Frontier attitudes and debt collection in western New York, by R. W. Silsby.; title: The mineral lands of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, by I. D. Neu.; title: Vicissitudes of an absentee landlord; a case study, by H. Cohen.; title: The Scott farms in a new agriculture, 1900-1919, by M. B. Bogue.; title: Barrier to settlement: British Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1794, by R. F. Berkhofer, Jr.; title: The Ohio-Mississippi flatboat trade; some reconsiderations, by H. N. Scheiber.; title: The impact of traders' claims on the American fur trade, by J. L. Clayton.; title: British immigrants in the old Northwest, 1815-1860, by C. Erickson.; title: The great speculation; an interpretation of mid-continent pioneering, by L. E. Decker.; title: The American West and foreign markets, 1850-1900, by M. Rothstein.; title: Works by Paul Wallace Gates, by G. P. Colman.