The Far Western frontier, 1830-1860

By Ray Allen Billington

Subjects: New mexico, history, Vie des pionniers, Frontier and pioneer life, Südstaaten, Territorial expansion, West (U.S.), Expansion territoriale, History

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.