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Title Westward expansion : an eyewitness history / [edited by] Sanford Wexler.

Publication Info. New York : Facts on File, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  973 WEXLER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Reference Material  R 973.3 WEXLER    In-Library Use Only
Description xiii, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.
Series The Eyewitness history series
Eyewitness history series.
Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Colonial frontier : 1754-1794 -- Trans-Mississippi frontier : 1795-1810 -- West in the War of 1812 and economic depression : 1811-1820 -- Early traders and explorers : 1821-1830 -- Across the Plains : 1831-1840 -- Manifest destiny : 1841-1847 -- Gold Rush and the debate over slavery in the West : 1848-1859 -- Overland transportation and Civil War in the West : 1860-1869 -- Opening the Plains : 1870-1879 -- Closing frontier : 1880-1897.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-410) and index.
Subject United States -- Territorial expansion.
Frontier and pioneer life -- United States.
Pioneers -- United States -- Biography.
Explorers -- United States -- Biography.
West (U.S.) -- Description and travel.
Indexed Term United States History, 1775-1901
Added Author Wexler, Sanford.
ISBN 0816024073: $35.00
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