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324 pages : 22 cm This history presents a pageant of westward exploration, military conquest, commercial penetration, exploitation and settlement. It also considers the various types of frontiersmen, fur trappers, missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, etc., and their types of adjustment to the new environment Includes bibliographical references and index The Mexican borderlands -- The road to Sante Fe -- The era of the Mountain men -- The coming of the pioneers -- The overland trails -- Texas: Revolution and republic -- Manifest destiny -- The West in the Mexican War -- The California Gold Rush -- The miners' frontier moves Eastward -- The reuniting of East and West

Author

Billington, Ray Allen, 1903-1981, author; Copyright Collection (Library of Congress)

Publisher

New York, NY: Harper

Published

1956

Language

EN