The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860 /
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.
| Основен автор: | Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York,
Harper ,
[1956].
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| Издание: | [1st ed.]. |
| Серия: |
New American nation series.
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Съдържание:
- The Mexican borderlands
- The road to Sante Fe
- The era of the Mountain men
- The coming of the pioneers
- The overland trails
- Texas: Revolution and republic
- Manifest destiny
- The West in the Mexican War
- The California Gold Rush
- The miners' frontier moves Eastward
- The reuniting of East and West.