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The Last American Frontier

by Frederic Logan Paxson

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Chapter I — The Westward Movement
  3. 3Chapter II — The Indian Frontier
  4. 4Chapter III — Iowa and the New Northwest
  5. 5Chapter IV — The Santa Fé Trail
  6. 6Chapter V — The Oregon Trail
  7. 7Chapter VI — Overland With the Mormons
  8. 8Chapter VII — California and the Forty-Niners
  9. 9Chapter VIII — Kansas and the Indian Frontier
  10. 10Chapter IX — “Pike’s Peak or Bust”
  11. 11Chapter X — From Arizona to Montana
  12. 12Chapter XI — The Overland Mail
  13. 13Chapter XII — The Engineers’ Frontier
  14. 14Chapter XIII — The Union Pacific Railroad
  15. 15Chapter XIV — The Plains in the Civil War
  16. 16Chapter XV — The Cheyenne War
  17. 17Chapter XVI — The Sioux War
  18. 18Chapter XVII — The Peace Commission and the Open Way
  19. 19Chapter XVIII — Black Kettle’s Last Raid
  20. 20Chapter XIX — The First of the Railways
  21. 21Chapter XX — The New Indian Policy
  22. 22Chapter XXI — The Last Stand of Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull
  23. 23Chapter XXII — Letting in the Population
  24. 24Note on the Sources

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