“The frontier promoted the formation of a composite nationality for the American people,” he told the audience. “In the crucible of the frontier, the immigrants were Americanized, liberated ...

In the mid-19th century, life along the northern Mexican frontier was shaped not only by the landscape and climate but also ...

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Chronicles the way the West was lost and won between 1845 and 1893. It looks at the final decades of the American frontier from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian wars ...