The Frontier Army In The Settlement Of The West

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133867
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780806131290
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Frontier written by William C. Davis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 G. Athearn
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806127699
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Tecumseh Sherman and the Settlement of the West written by Robert G. Athearn and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Wooster
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344548X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Crossroads written by Robert Wooster and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Leo E. Oliva
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Union and the Frontier Army in the Southwest written by Leo E. Oliva and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Wooster
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826338445
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Military Frontiers written by Robert Wooster and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the U.S. Army, Western experiences illustrated its role in ensuring national security and in fostering national development. Its soldiers performed feats of great heroism and rank cruelty. Debates regarding the military's role in projecting Indian policy, the division of power between state and federal authorities, and the size of a professional military establishment reveal the inconsistency in the nation's views of its army.

Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745460X
Total Pages : 1500 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Settlement of America written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

Author : James P. Tate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Military on the Frontier written by James P. Tate and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Far Western Frontier, 1830-1860 written by Ray Allen Billington and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... 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 : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615859X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Douglas C. McChristian and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events. Emphasizing the fort's military history, McChristian documents the army's vital role in ending challenges posed by American Indians to U.S. occupation and settlement of the region, and he expands on the fort's interactions with the many Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains. He provides a particularly lucid description of the infamous Grattan fight of 1854, which initiated a generation of strife between Indians and U.S. soldiers, and he recounts the 1851 Horse Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American West's most venerable historic places.