Research Catalog

Title

The last American frontier / by Frederic Logan Paxson.

Author

Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948

Publication

• New York : The Macmillan Company, 1910.
• Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. : Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co. -- Berwick & Smith Co.
• ©1910

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Details

Additional Authors

• Macmillan Company, publisher.
• Norwood Press, printer.
• J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.
• Berwick & Smith, printer.

Description

xi, 402 p. illus., maps, plates; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Stories from American history

Uniform Title

Stories from American history.

Subject

• Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
• Frontier and pioneer life
• West (U.S.) > History
• West United States

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.
• Publisher's advertisements on 4 unnumbered pages at end.

Bibliography (note)

• "Notes on the sources": p. 387-392.

Contents

The westward movement -- The indian frontier -- Iowa and the new northwest -- The santa fé trail -- The oregon trail -- Overland with the mormons -- California and the forty-niners -- Kansas and the indian frontier -- "Pike's peak or bust!" -- From arizona to montana -- The overland mail -- The engineers' frontier -- The union pacific railroad -- The plains in the civil war -- The cheyenne war -- The sioux war -- The peace commission and the open way -- Black kettle's last raid -- The first of the railways -- The new indian policy -- The last stand: chief joseph and sitting bull -- Letting in the population -- Biblographical note

LCCN

10005085

OCLC

• ocm00484813
• 484813
• SCSB-168757

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library