| Description |
xx, 454 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-435) and index. |
| Contents |
Discoverers : military scientists, ethnologists, and artists in the new empire -- Encountering the elephant : army aid to emigrants on the Platte River road -- Across and on the wide Missouri : the army's role in western transportation and communication -- Posse comitatus in blue : the soldier as frontier lawman -- Dining at the government trough : army contracts and payrolls as community builders -- Uncle Sam's farmers : soldiers as agriculturalists and meteorologists -- Hippocrates in blue : army doctors on the frontier -- Reform the man : post chapels, schools, and libraries -- Sharpening the eagle's talons for domestic duties : the army in public relief work and in protecting the national parks -- In defense of "Poor Lo" : military advocacy for Native American rights -- Documenting the experience : soldier journalists, autobiographers, and novelists -- Life after soldiering : entrepreneurs, investors, and retirees. |
| Subject |
United States. Army -- History -- 19th century.
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United States. Army -- Military life -- History -- 19th century.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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| ISBN |
080613173X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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