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Title The Frontier challenge; responses to the trans-Mississippi West. / Edited by John G. Clark.

Publication Info. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, [1971]

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Description vii, 307 pages ; 23 cm
Note Papers prepared for presentation at a conference in honor of George L. Anderson, University of Kansas, Oct. 16-17, 1969.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies.
Contents Introduction, by J. G. Clark.--The urban frontier of the Far West, by E. Pomeroy.--The Spanish-Americans in the Southwest, 1848-1900, by R. W. Paul.--The fisherman's frontier on the Pacific coast; the rise of the salmon-canning industry, by V. Carstensen.--American Indian policy in the 1840s; visions of reform, by F. P. Prucha.--Stephen A. Douglas and the American mission, by R. W. Johannsen.--Indian allotments preceding the Dawes Act, by P. W. Gates.--Squaw men on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation; advance agents of civilization or disturbers of the peace? by W. T. Hagan.--To shape a western state; some dimensions of the Kansas search for capital, 1865-1893, by A. G. Bogue.--The English and Kansas, 1865-1890, by O. O. Winther.--Banks, mails, and rails, 1880-1915, by G. L. Anderson.
Subject West (U.S.) -- History.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Added Author Clark, John G. (John Garretson), 1932-2000.
Anderson, George L. (George LaVerne), 1905-1971.
University of Kansas.
ISBN 0700600701 $10.00