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

(Part of the The New American Nation Series Series)

by Rodman W. Paul

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0060158360

ISBN13:9780060158361

Release Date:January 1988

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Length:381 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

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19th Century History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) State & Local

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