History of the American Frontier - 1763-1893 - Softcover

Paxson, Frederic L.

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798366289245

Publisher: Independently published, 2022

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History

For many years, a single volume covering the "History of the West" did not exist. Paxson’s masterwork rectifies this problem – offering an essential, sweeping account of the American West and westward expansion from 1763-1893.

The American pioneer is followed to every frontier for nearly 150 years across fifty-nine chapters. Full of world-class insight, Paxson masterfully paints a picture of how the land mass of the United States was settled – starting with English settlers in New England to the wayward expansion across the continent and ending with the sunny shores of California.

Paxson’s literary genius does not shine in quotations from secondary and source material; he has made his material a part of himself. Indeed, rather than conforming to a social history, Paxson takes a historical, geographic, and pragmatic view of Westward expansion. He masterfully covers American history from the War for Independence to the Louisiana Purchase, conflicts with Native Americans and Civil War, Presidential edicts from Washington to Roosevelt, and even offers keen insight into the little-studied intricacies of frontier finance and the inside workings of canal and railroad corporations.

“Future historians will gratefully remember Mr. Paxson for essaying a task which others had either shirked or felt themselves incompetent to perform.”

This is a must-read for any student of American history.

About the Author: Frederic Logan Paxson was an American historian, President of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, and possessed undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master's from Harvard University. As a historian, he was an authority on the American frontier and won the 1925 Pulitzer Prize for this work.

Chapters of this work Include:

1. The American Frontier of 1763
2. The Forks of the Ohio
3. The Shenandoah Country and the Tennessee
4. The Rear of the Revolution
5. The Land Problem
6. Creation of the Public Domain
7. The National Land System
8. The Old Northwest
9. The Western Boundaries
10. The First New States
11. Political Theories of the Frontier
12. Jeffersonian Democracy
13. The Frontier of 1800
14. Ohio: The Clash of Principles
15. The Purchase of Louisiana
16. Problems of the Southwest Border
17. The Bonds of Unity
18. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811
19. The Western War of 1812
20. Stabilizing the Frontier
21. The Great Migration
22. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and Illinois
23. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and Alabama
24. Missouri: The New Sectionalism
25. Public Land Reform
26. Frontier Finance
27. The American System
28. Jacksonian Democracy
29. The East, and the Western Markets
30. The Western Internal Improvements
31. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825-1841
32. The Mississippi Valley Boom
33. The Border States: Michigan and Arkansas
34. The Independent State of Texas
35. 1837: The Prostrate West
36. The Trail to Santa Fe
37. The Settlement of Oregon
38. The “State” of Deseret *
39. The War with Mexico
40. The Conquest of California
41. Far West and Politics
42. Preemption
43. The Frontier of the Forties
44. The Railroad Age
45. Land Grants and the Western Roads
46. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian Country
47. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”
48. The Frontier of the Mineral Empire
49. The Overland Route
50. The Public Lands: Wide Open
51. The Plains in the Civil War
52. The Union Pacific Railroad
53. The Disruption of the Tribes
54. The Panic of 1873
55. Frontier Panaceas
56. The Cow Country
57. The Closed Frontier
58. The Admission of the “Omnibus” States
59. The Disappearance of the Frontier

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798366289245
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374