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The American military frontiers : the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wooster, Robert, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
Series:Histories of the American frontier.
Subjects:
West (U.S.) > History, Military > 19th century.
United States. > Army > History > 19th century.
United States. > Army > Military life > History > 19th century.
United States > Territorial expansion > History > 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
Table of Contents:
  • Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley
  • Sword of the nation
  • Sharpening the nation's sword
  • Asserting national sovereignty
  • The wars of Indian removal
  • Agent of manifest destiny
  • Constabularies in blue
  • Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union
  • Civil wars in the borderlands
  • The regulars return
  • Testing the peace policy
  • Conquest of a continent
  • Epilogue : the long frontier.