The Frontier Challenge : Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West /

The Frontier Challenge : Responses to the Trans-Mississippi West / Edited by John G. Clark. - 1 online resource (318 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969.

Introduction, by J.G. Clark.--The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy.--The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R.W. Paul.--The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen.--American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F.P. Prucha.--Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R.W. Johannsen.--Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P.W. Gates.--Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W.T. Hagan.--To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A.G. Bogue.--The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O.O. Winther.--Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G.L. Anderson.

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