The American military frontiers [electronic resource] : the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 / Robert Wooster
- Author:
- Wooster, Robert, 1956-
- Published:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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- Contents:
- Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley -- Sword of the nation -- Sharpening the nation's sword -- Asserting national sovereignty -- The wars of Indian removal -- Agent of manifest destiny -- Constabularies in blue -- Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union -- Civil wars in the borderlands -- The regulars return -- Testing the peace policy -- Conquest of a continent -- Epilogue : the long frontier.
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- ISBN:
- 9780826338440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780826338433 (cloth : alk. paper)
0826338437 (cloth : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-350) and index.
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