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History of the American Frontier 1763–1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize winner in History, 1925.
The prize-winning History of the American Frontier, 1763–1893 covers a very wide sweep of topics, with unusual strength in handling violent relations between the frontiersman and the Indians. Paxson emphasized the impact on people of the process of moving to the west, downplaying the static aspects of specific localities.
From the Author’s Preface:
When I began my studies in the history of the West some twenty years ago, the State of Colorado, where I worked, still bore the imprint of the struggle of the preceding decade. The frontier was gone; and the frontiersmen there as elsewhere in the United States were adapting themselves to the life of a new century. Turner had already pointed out the significance of the frontier in our history, but the occasional historical pioneer who followed his lead must make his own tools, find his sources, and assemble his bibliographies.
The time is ripe for … synthesis, in which an attempt is made to show the proportions of the whole story.
Author’s Preface
I. The American Frontier of 1763
II. The Forks of the Ohio
III. The Shenandoah Country and the Tennessee
IV. The Rear of the Revolution
V. The Land Problem
VI. Creation of the Public Domain
VII. The National Land System
VIII. The Old Northwest
IX. The Western Boundaries
X. The First New States
XI. Political Theories of the Frontier
XII. Jeffersonian Democracy
XIII. The Frontier of 1800
XIV. Ohio: The Clash of Principles
XV. The Purchase of Louisiana
XVI. Problems of the Southwest Border
XVII. The Bonds of Unity
XVIII. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811
XIX. The Western War of 1812
XX. Stabilizing the Frontier
XXI. The Great Migration
XXII. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and Illinois
XXIII. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and Alabama
XXIV. Missouri: The New Sectionalism
XXV. Public Land Reform
XXVI. Frontier Finance
XXVII. The American System
XXVIII. Jacksonian Democracy
XXIX. The East, and the Western Markets
XXX. The Western Internal Improvements
XXXI. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825–1841
XXXII. The Mississippi Valley Boom
XXXIII. The Border States: Michigan and Arkansas
XXXIV. The Independent State of Texas
XXXV. 1837: The Prostrate West
XXXVI. The Trail to Santa Fe
XXXVII. The Settlement of Oregon
XXXVIII. The “State” of Deseret
XXXIX. The War with Mexico
XL. The Conquest of California
XLI. Far West and Politics
XLII. Preemption
XLIII. The Frontier of the Forties
XLIV. The Railroad Age
XLV. Land Grants and the Western Roads
XLVI. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian Country
XLVII. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”
XLVIII. The Frontier of the Mineral Empire
XLIX. The Overland Route
L. The Public Lands: Wide Open
LI. The Plains in the Civil War
LII. The Union Pacific Railroad
LIII. The Disruption of the Tribes
LIV. The Panic of 1873
LV. Frontier Panaceas
LVI. The Cow Country
LVII. The Closed Frontier
LVIII. The Admission of the “Omnibus” States
LIX. The Disappearance of the Frontier
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