Famous history professor of the University of Wisconsin, Paxson convincingly argues in this 1910 text that "[T]he American people were forged in the crucible of the western frontier."
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overland traffic, wood train, overland mail, agricultural frontier, hundredth meridian Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Union Pacific, New Mexico, Salt Lake, Rio Grande, Missouri River, Pike's Peak, Sand Creek, Black Hawk, Black Kettle, Civil War, Fort Laramie, Fort Benton, San Francisco, Central Pacific, Governor Stevens, South Pass, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Union, Big Horn, Red River, Fort Cobb, Fort Hall, Fort Philip Kearney, Sitting Bull New!
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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. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
overland traffic, wood train, overland mail, agricultural frontier, hundredth meridian Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Union Pacific, New Mexico, Salt Lake, Rio Grande, Missouri River, Pike's Peak, Sand Creek, Black Hawk, Black Kettle, Civil War, Fort Laramie, Fort Benton, San Francisco, Central Pacific, Governor Stevens, South Pass, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Union, Big Horn, Red River, Fort Cobb, Fort Hall, Fort Philip Kearney, Sitting Bull New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Indian Country by Gwendolyn Cates on 9 pages
- Massacres of the Mountains (Frontier Classics) by J. P. Dunn Jr. on page 366, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Our Indian Wards (American Scene) by George W. Manypenny on page 120, and Back Matter
- A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson on page 342, and Back Matter
- Commerce of the Prairies: Life on the Great Plains in the 1830's and 1840's by Josiah Gregg on page 61, and Back Matter
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- The Pathbreakers From River To Ocean: The Story Of The Great West From The Time Of Coronado To The Present by Grace Raymond Hebard on 6 pages
- The Overland Mail: 1849-1869 by LeRoy R. Hafen on page 299, page 317, and Back Matter
- The United States Since the Civil War by Charles Ramsdell Lingley on page 48
- Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait by James L. Haley in Back Matter
- The Peerless Leader William Jennings Bryan by Paxton Hibben in Back Matter
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