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Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900

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ISBN-10: 0060914483

ISBN-13: 9780060914486

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Rodman W. Paul, Henry Steele Commager, Richard B. Morris

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In this book, his final work, Rodman W. Paul explores the settlement of the American West in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Lured by stories of open spaces, fertile farming, & grazing lands & by the attraction of gold & silver, people from many nations traveled westward by the thousands. Early migrants rode in stagecoaches & Conestoga wagons; their successors, on the transcontinental railroads, which linked western cities with their eastern counterparts. This comprehensive history describes not only population movement & mining development but also banking, farming, ranching, & other economic ventures. In a new foreword, Martin Ridge places Paul's history in the context of…    
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List price: $9.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Henry Steele Commager was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 25, 1902. He was educated at the University of Chicago. He taught history at New York University, Columbia University, and Amherst College. In addition to lecturing at many universities throughout the world, he was Harmsworth Professor at Oxford University and Pitt Professor at Cambridge University, where he was also an honorary fellow at Peterhouse College. His writings range widely over such topics as education, the Civil War, civil liberties, the Enlightenment, and immigration. Many of his books reflect his keen interest in constitutional history and civil liberties. He was also a documentarian, who has said to…    

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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Prologue: A Varied People in a Varied Land in an Era of Rapid Change
Horace Greeley Goes West
The Mining Advance into the Interior
The Response to the Mining Boom: I. From the East
The Response to the Mining Boom: II. From the West
Build Thee More Stately Mansions: Leadership in Three Western Cities
Many Peoples: I. White Immigrants, Black Americans, and Red Indians
Many Peoples: II. The Spanish-Speaking and the Chinese
Self-Proclaimed "Peculiar People"
Into the Pasturelands: I. Cattlemen Occupy the Ranges
Into the Pasturelands: II. Sheep Men Also Enter the Ranges
Farming in a Land of Limited Rain
The Later Days of Mining
Other Opportunities
If Horace Greeley Could See It Now
Source Notes
Bibliographical Essay
Index