The Last American Frontier
by Frederic L. Paxson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Paxson, Frederic L. (Frederic Logan), 1877-1948
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Melissa McDaniel, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
- Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45699
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45699
- Release Date
- May 19, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.STORIES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER
- 6.CHAPTER I THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
- 7.CHAPTER II THE INDIAN FRONTIER
- 8.CHAPTER III IOWA AND THE NEW NORTHWEST
- 9.CHAPTER IV THE SANTA FÉ TRAIL
- 10.CHAPTER V THE OREGON TRAIL
- 11.CHAPTER VI OVERLAND WITH THE MORMONS
- 12.CHAPTER VII CALIFORNIA AND THE FORTY-NINERS
- 13.CHAPTER VIII KANSAS AND THE INDIAN FRONTIER
- 14.CHAPTER IX "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST" 2
- 15.CHAPTER X FROM ARIZONA TO MONTANA
- 16.CHAPTER XI THE OVERLAND MAIL
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE ENGINEERS' FRONTIER
- 18.CHAPTER XIII THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
- 19.CHAPTER XIV THE PLAINS IN THE CIVIL WAR
- 20.CHAPTER XV THE CHEYENNE WAR
- 21.CHAPTER XVI THE SIOUX WAR
- 22.CHAPTER XVII THE PEACE COMMISSION AND THE OPEN WAY
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII BLACK KETTLE'S LAST RAID
- 24.CHAPTER XIX THE FIRST OF THE RAILWAYS
- 25.CHAPTER XX THE NEW INDIAN POLICY
- 26.CHAPTER XXI THE LAST STAND OF CHIEF JOSEPH AND SITTING BULL
- 27.CHAPTER XXII LETTING IN THE POPULATION 3
- 28.NOTE ON THE SOURCES
- 29.INDEX
- 30.Transcribers' Note
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