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The farmers' frontier, 1865-1900 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fite, Gilbert Courtland, 1918-2010
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1966]
Series:Histories of the American frontier.
Subjects:
Agriculture > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The unknown land
  • Land and immigration policies in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas
  • The Upper Midwest and central prairie frontier, 1865-1875
  • Destitution on the frontier in the 1870s
  • Bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the north
  • The great Dakota boom, 1875-1887
  • The central plains frontier, 1878-1896
  • Agricultural settlement in Oregon and Washington
  • The farmers' frontier in California, 1850-1900
  • The Rocky Mountain farming frontier
  • Pioneering in West Texas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, 1860-1900
  • The end of the farmers' frontier.