The Western Military Frontier 1815-1846
Author | : Henry Putney Beers |
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Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Henry Putney Beers |
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Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 1975 |
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Author | : Henry Putney BEERS |
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Release | : 1935 |
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Author | : Henry Putney Beers |
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Total Pages | : 227 |
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Author | : Robert M. Utley |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003-10-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826329985 |
First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years. What they said about the first edition: "[The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890] provides an excellent synthesis of Indian-white relations in the trans-Mississippi West during the last half-century of the frontier period."--Journal of American History "The Indian Frontier of the American West combines good writing, solid research, and penetrating interpretations. The result is a fresh and welcome study that departs from the soldier-chases-Indian approach that is all too typical of other books on the topic."--Minnesota History "[Robert M. Utley] has carefully eschewed sensationalism and glib oversimplification in favor of critical appraisal, and his firm command of some of the best published research of others provides a solid foundation for his basic argument that Indian hostility in the half century following the Mexican War was directed less at the white man per se than at the hated reservation system itself."--Pacific Historical Review Choice Magazine Outstanding Selection
Author | : Henry Putney Beers |
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Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : History |
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Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Fortification |
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Author | : George Croghan |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2014-04-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806146400 |
From Fort Snelling on the upper Mississippi and Fort Leavenworth on the Missouri to Fort St. Philip below New Orleans, the string of military bases along the western frontier of the United States played an essential part in the orderly advance of settlement following the War of 1812. Small, isolated , and insignificant in terms of fortification—after all, the authorized strength of the whole army was only 6,000 men—they were nevertheless the stabilizing and moderating force in the dramatic "rise of the new West." For twenty years prior to the Mexican War, Colonel George Croghan, as inspector general of the army, examined these frontier garrisons with a critical eye. His reports give an intimate, firsthand picture of what the western outposts were really like. Moreover, whether lashing out at the unreasonable discipline prescribed for privates or quietly commending an officer's good work, he wrote with a warmth and vitality seldom found in government documents. Arranged topically with brief introductions by the editor, the reports cover all phases of army life: quarters, clothing, the mess, hospitals and medical care, army chaplains, quartermaster supplies, the small arms of the troops, instruction, fatigue duties, military discipline, recruiting, and army sutlers. They also contain much additional information on roads, frontier conditions, Indian affairs, and related matters. George Croghan was a perceptive reporter, and his account of life and conditions at the western forts will prove valuable and interesting to the western Americana enthusiast as well as to the student of western history.
Author | : R. Douglas Hurt |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826319661 |
A sweeping history of the cultural clashes between Indians and the British, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. A story of the contest for land and power across multiple and simultaneous frontiers.
Author | : United States Air Force Academy. Library |
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Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Discoveries in geography |
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Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2007 |
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ISBN | : 1437923038 |
This occasional paper is a concise overview of the history of the US Army's involvement along the Mexican border and offers a fundamental understanding of problems associated with such a mission. Furthermore, it demonstrates how the historic themes addressed disapproving public reaction, Mexican governmental instability, and insufficient US military personnel to effectively secure the expansive boundary are still prevalent today.