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Title

The Frontier challenge ; responses to the trans-Mississippi West / Edited by John G. Clark.

Publication

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1971]

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Additional Authors

• Clark, John Garretson, 1932-
• Anderson, George L. (George LaVerne), 1905-1971.
• University of Kansas.

Description

vii, 307 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• West (U.S.) > History

Note

• Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

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.

ISBN

0700600701

LCCN

79121649

OCLC

ocm00117891

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries