Discusses the unique and difficult life in America's frontier towns as the frontier expanded westward from colonial Virginia to California and back to Nebraska.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252) and index.
Contents
The First Frontiers -- Over the Mountains and Beyond -- Daniel Boone and the Kentucky Pioneers -- The Lure of the Far-Distant West -- The Mountain Men -- Gold Fever -- Ranches and Homesteaders in the Great West
Summary
Discusses the unique and difficult life in America's frontier towns as the frontier expanded westward from colonial Virginia to California and back to Nebraska.