Title: The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860
First published: 1956
Description: This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Territorial expansion, West (U.S.), History, Südstaaten, Expansion territoriale, Vie des pionniers, New mexico, history
Places: United States, West (U.S.)
Time periods: 1848-1860, To 1848