The far west and the great plains in transition, 1859-1900 / Rodman W. Paul.
1988
F595 .P27 1988 (Mapit)
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Title
The far west and the great plains in transition, 1859-1900 / Rodman W. Paul.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
0060158360
9780060158361
0060914483 (pbk.)
9780060914486 (pbk.)
9780060158361
0060914483 (pbk.)
9780060914486 (pbk.)
Imprint
New York : Harper & Row, ©1988.
Language
English
Description
xv, 381 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Call Number
F595 .P27 1988
Summary
History of the mass movement of people to the west in the last half of the nineteenth century.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
New American nation series.
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Table of Contents
Horace Greeley goes west
The mining advance into the interior
The response to the mining boom : from the east
The response to the mining boom : from the west
Build thee more stately mansions : leadership in three western cities
Many peoples : white immigrants, black Americans, and red Indians
Many peoples : the Spanish-speaking and the Chines
Self-proclaimed "Peculiar people"
Into the pasturelands : cattlemen occupy the ranges
Into the pasturelands : sheep men also enter the ranges
Farming in a land of limited rain
The later days of mining
Other opportunities
If Horace Greeley could see it now
The mining advance into the interior
The response to the mining boom : from the east
The response to the mining boom : from the west
Build thee more stately mansions : leadership in three western cities
Many peoples : white immigrants, black Americans, and red Indians
Many peoples : the Spanish-speaking and the Chines
Self-proclaimed "Peculiar people"
Into the pasturelands : cattlemen occupy the ranges
Into the pasturelands : sheep men also enter the ranges
Farming in a land of limited rain
The later days of mining
Other opportunities
If Horace Greeley could see it now