

An edition of The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860 (1956)
By Ray Allen Billington
Publish Date
1956
Publisher
Harper
Language
eng
Pages
324
Description:
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.