The Frontier in American development; essays in honor of Paul Wallace Gates.
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Ithaca,
Cornell University Press
[1969]
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| Edition: | 1st ed.] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword, by F. Merk
- The historian as mythmaker: Turner and the closed frontier, by L. Benson
- Senators, sectionalism, and the "Western" measures of the Republican Party, by A. G. Bogue
- The Homestead clause in railroad land grants, by D. M. Ellis
- Congress looks west: liberal ideology and public land policy in the nineteenth century, by M. E. Young
- Maine and its public domain: land disposal on the northeastern frontier, by D. C. Smith
- Frontier attitudes and debt collection in western New York, by R. W. Silsby
- The mineral lands of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, by I. D. Neu
- Vicissitudes of an absentee landlord; a case study, by H. Cohen
- The Scott farms in a new agriculture, 1900-1919, by M. B. Bogue
- Barrier to settlement: British Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1794, by R. F. Berkhofer, Jr
- The Ohio-Mississippi flatboat trade; some reconsiderations, by H. N. Scheiber
- The impact of traders' claims on the American fur trade, by J. L. Clayton
- British immigrants in the old Northwest, 1815-1860, by C. Erickson
- The great speculation; an interpretation of mid-continent pioneering, by L. E. Decker
- The American West and foreign markets, 1850-1900, by M. Rothstein
- Works by Paul Wallace Gates, by G. P. Colman.