The westward movement in the United States, Ray Allen Billington

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The westward movement in the United States, Ray Allen Billington

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Ray Allen Billington

Instantiates

• The westward movement in the United States

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1959

Bibliography note

Includes bibliography

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volume

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nc

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Contents

• Part I: The westward movement in the United States -- Introduction -- The Colonial frontier, 1607-1763 -- Surmounting the Appalachian barrier, 1763-1812 -- The Mississippi Valley frontier, 1812-1840 -- Opening the Far West, 1825-1846 -- The conquest of the Far West, 1846-1865 -- America's last frontier, 1865-1890 -- The frontier's impact on American life
• Part II: Documents -- Gabriel Arthur's account of his explorations and captivity, 1673 -- Frontier life in the colonial backcountry -- The attack on Fort Presq'isle in Pontiac's Rebellion, 1763 -- The frontier advance into Kentucky -- George Rogers Clark's campaign against Vincennes, 1779 -- Indian warfare in the Northwest: St. Clair's defeat, 1791 -- Frontier types on the Ohio Valley frontier -- Land sales and claim associations on the middle-western frontier
• The organization and operation of the Santa Fe trade -- The role of the mountain men in opening the Far West -- The peopling of the Texas frontier -- The spread of the "Oregon Fever" -- Life along the Oregon Trail -- The attack on Sonoma by California's bear flaggers -- Overland trails to the gold fields, 1849 -- How the Forty niners dug the gold -- The mining rush to the Comstock Lode country -- Western transportation: the Butterfield Overland Mail
• The first Transcontinental Railroad: driving the final spike -- Great Plains Indian warfare: the Chivington Massacre -- Spread of the cattle frontier: the round up -- The farmers' last frontier: wheat growing on the Great Plains -- The closing of the frontier: the Boomer Rush to Oklahoma -- Opening the Oklahoma District: the greatest foot race in history

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19 cm.

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192 pages

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9780442000370

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59009757

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99175502860001161

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(OCoLC)423920