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xiv, 272 pages : illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; 24 cm. |
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Histories of the American frontier |
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Histories of the American frontier.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Ray Allen Billington -- The unknown land -- Land and immigration policies in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas -- The Upper Midwest and central prairie frontier, 1865-1875 -- Destitution on the frontier in the 1870s -- Bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North -- The great Dakota boom, 1875-1887 -- The central plains frontier, 1878-1896 -- Agricultural settlement in Oregon and Washington -- The farmers' frontier in California, 1850-1900 -- The Rocky Mountain farming frontier -- Pioneering in West Texas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma, 1860-1900 -- The end of the farmers' frontier. |
| Summary |
When American farmers began their move after the Civil War, the Far West was virtually unsettled. A few thousand Americans called California their home, but between the Pacific Coast and the Missouri River, only isolated pockets of settlement in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and other distant spots challenged nature's monopoly. When the farmers' march slowed at the end of the century, the entire West was occupied, except for the mountain and desert country that still repulsed mankind's advances. In the three decades after 1870, more land was settled and placed under cultivation by farmers than in all the prior history of the continent. |
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Agriculture -- United States -- History.
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United States -- Territorial expansion -- History -- 19th century.
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Frontier and pioneer life.
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Agriculture. (OCoLC)fst00801355
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Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
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Territorial expansion. (OCoLC)fst01355135
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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