The Frontier Challenge : Responses to the TransMississippi West / / Edited by John G. Clark.
The story of the westward expansion of this country does not stop with the hardships encountered by travelers on the Mormon Trail, the discomforts endured by early settlers in sod houses, the bravery of the Pony Express riders, the romantic solitude of the cowboys, or the sufferings of the Indians f...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Lawrence, : University Press of Kansas, [1971] |
| Year of Publication: | 1971 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 307 p.) |
| Notes: | Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction, by J. G. Clark
- The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy
- The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R. W. Paul
- The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen
- American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F. P. Prucha
- Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R. W. Johannsen
- Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P. W. Gates
- Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W. T. Hagan
- To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A. G. Bogue
- The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O. O. Winther
- Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G. L. Anderson.