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

Lawrence, University Press of Kansas [1971]

West (U.S.) -- History.

vii, 307 p. 23 cm.

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.

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