In The American Frontier, historian William C. Davis masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement. The first bold steps of Lewis and Clark in 1804 inspired the emergence of a nation in a momentous century of migration and settlement. During the next few decades, while Texas and California fought to be free of Mexican rule, the slow spread westward began: the Mormons in Utah, the ‘49ers in California, and the development of stage routes, railways, and other overland trails. With the end of the Civil War, in 1865, people of all nations and tongues sped to the West--the pioneers, trappers, entrepreneurs, buffalo hunters, miners, soldiers, gamblers, cowboys, lawmen, gunfighters.
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This review is from: American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800-1899 (Hardcover)
This is a fabulous compilation! It tells the complete story of how the West was explored, survey, and settled... It's got it all, the miners, the Civil War, the cowboys, the outlaws, the indians, the women, the law, and pictorially and literally describes how the western side of the Country went from being uncharted to developed and civilized in less than a hundred years.
This has to be THE single best History book on the era of the Old West.
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The visual frontier,
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This review is from: The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800-1899 (Paperback)
This text book gives the reader a visual account of the american west as well as insightful articles for the college level reader. I recommend this book for all those interested in the american frontier
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Good book about the American West, but too little info,
By "khart8" (Kingston, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The American Frontier: Pioneers, Settlers, and Cowboys 1800-1899 (Paperback)
When I bought "The American Frontier", I was doing a History Fair project about the exploration and settling of the American West. When I found it here, I decided to buy it because it looked like it covered the time periods I needed. Although it did, it didnt go into the kind of info I really needed, but I did use it to help me because it had tons of graphics in it. If you love cowboys, though, you should think about getting this book.
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The Crow, also called Absaroka, were a noble but fierce people who in the 1800s followed the migrating herds across the Great Plains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New Mexico, United States, San Francisco, Dodge City, New York, Pony Express, Buffalo Bill, Colt Model, Indian Territory, Lincoln County, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Rio Grande, San Diego, Santa Anna, Winchester Model, Little Bighorn, Salt Lake City, Union Pacific, Fort Laramie, New Orleans, Nez Perce, Pike's Peak, Sitting Bull, The Great West New!
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The Crow, also called Absaroka, were a noble but fierce people who in the 1800s followed the migrating herds across the Great Plains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New Mexico, United States, San Francisco, Dodge City, New York, Pony Express, Buffalo Bill, Colt Model, Indian Territory, Lincoln County, Los Angeles, San Antonio, Rio Grande, San Diego, Santa Anna, Winchester Model, Little Bighorn, Salt Lake City, Union Pacific, Fort Laramie, New Orleans, Nez Perce, Pike's Peak, Sitting Bull, The Great West New!
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- Pony Express (Wild West in American History) by A. I. Lake on 6 pages
- The Great West by David Lavender on 5 pages
- The American West (Our world wallcharts) by Robin May on page 13, and page 43
- Des Moines by Seeger Map Co in Front Matter, and page 20
- California Gold: Beginning of Mining in the Far West (Bison Book) by Rodman W. Paul on page 77
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