[PDF] The Frontier Army In The Settlement Of The West eBook

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806133867

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A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806131290

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The author of "The Fighting Men of the Civil War" now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement.

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 160344548X

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The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located astride communication lines linking San Antonio, El Paso, Presidio, and Chihuahua City, the United States Army?s post at Fort Davis commanded a strategic position at a military, cultural, and economic crossroads of nineteenth-century Texas. Using extensive research and careful scrutiny of long forgotten records, Robert Wooster brings his readers into the world of Fort Davis, a place of encounter, conquest, and community. The fort here spawned a thriving civilian settlement and served as the economic nexus for regional development Frontier Crossroads schools its readers in the daily lives of soldiers, their dependents, and civilians at the fort and in the surrounding area. The resulting history of the intriguing blend of Hispanic, African American, Anglo, and European immigrants who came to Fort Davis is a benchmark volume that will serve as the standard to which other post histories will be compared. The military garrisons of Fort Davis represented a rich mosaic of nineteenth-century American life. Each of the army?s four black regiments served there following the Civil War, and its garrisons engaged in many of the army?s grueling campaigns against Apache and Comanche Indians. Characters such as artist and officer Arthur T. Lee, William "Pecos Bill" Shafter, and Benjamin Grierson and his family come alive under Wooster?s pen. Frontier Crossroads will enrich its readers with its careful analysis of life on the frontier. This book will appeal to military and social historians, Texas history buffs, and those seeking a record of adventure.

Author : Robert G. Athearn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806127699

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William Tecumseh Sherman is known primarily for having cut a swath of destruction through Georgia and the Carolinas during the Civil War. From the fame of these years, however, he moved into an eighteen-year phase of “insuring the tranquility” of the vast region of the American West. As commander of the Division of the Missouri from 1865 to 1869 and General of the Army of the United States under President Grant from 1869 to 1883, Sherman facilitated expansion and settlement in the West while suppressing the raids of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Comanche, and Crow Indians. Robert G. Athearn explores Sherman’s and his army’s roles in the settling of the West, especially within the broad framework of railroad construction, Indian policy, political infighting, and popular opinion.

Author : R. Eli Paul
Publisher : South Dakota State Historical Society
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781941813218

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Introduction: The frontier Army remembered / R. Eli Paul -- Harney's aide-de-camp at the Blue Water fight, 1855 : a letter by Marshall T. Polk II, United States Army / R. Eli Paul -- The Fourth United States Artillery and the Great Sioux War : source material / Paul L. Hedren -- Shoot today and kill tomorrow : the function and evolution of artillery during the Indian campaigns, 1866-1890 / Douglas C. McChristian -- No time to fight : recreation in the frontier Army / Lori A. Cox-Paul -- "A very good friend to the Army" : the frontier soldier in the Western art of Frederic Remington / Brian W. Dippie -- Lakota perspectives on Wounded Knee, 1890 / Jerome A. Greene -- Remembering the Buffalo soldiers : memorials to black soldiers of the Indian-war era / Frank N. Schubert

Author : Monroe Lee Billington
Publisher :
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :

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Thirteen essays examine the roles African-Americans played in the settling of the American West, discussing the slaves of Mormons and California gold miners; African-American army men, cowboys, and newspaper founders; and others on the frontier. Also includes a bibliographic essay.

Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :

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" ... Dual objective[s] ... to describe, as thoroughly as space limitations permitted, both the movement of settlers into the Far West and the national or world events which directly influenced their migration ... second purpose: to advance evidence pertaining to the generations-old conflict over the so called : 'frontier hypothesis' ..."--Preface

Author : James William Steele
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 11,9 MB
Release : 2008-06-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781436855051

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.