Western America: The Exploration, Settlement, and Development of the Region Beyond the Mississippi

New York:: Prentice Hall ,, 1941.. First Edition. Octavo, First Edition, 698 pages includes Index, Burgundy Cloth in Chrystal Shield plastic cover. In the first four chapters the authors have followed a "cronological sequence beginning with the Spanish and French in establishing themselves in the Southwest, on the Pacific Coast and in the Mississippi Valley." Remaining chapters are concerned with the gradual emergence of the new Westerner, his problems, his institutions, his interests, colonization." Includes early explorations, Indian Wars, territorial conquests, border traders and trappers, border posts, transportation, railroad building, mining, livestock industry, making of new states, the disappearance of the frontier, reclamation, agrarianism, and the rise of regional culture." There is a twenty page section on the Lewis and Clark Expedition included in the 27 page Chapter on The Purchase and Exploration of Louisiana.