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Wilderness And The American Mind

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Roderick Frazier Nash
Publication Details
Book, 4th ed, Yale University Press, 2001
Description
The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of “books that changed our world”, and it has been called the “Book of Genesis for environmentalists”. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Nature · Social aspects · United States · Philosophy of nature · Effect of human beings on · Human ecology · History · Values · Frontier and pioneer life · Nature conservation · Environmental conditions · Civilization · Nash, Roderick
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .N374 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E169.1 .N374 2001	AVAILABLE

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Feast Or Famine : Food And Drink In American Westward Expansion

Attribution
Reginald Horsman
Publication Details
Book, University of Missouri Press, 2008
Description
This first comprehensive account of food and drink in the winning of the West describes the sustenance of successive generations of western pioneers. He covers regional frontiers, as well as the cuisines of groups such as fur traders, soldiers, miners, and Mormons, and discusses food shortages that resulted from poor preparation, temporary scarcity of game, marginal soil, or simply bad luck. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Drinking customs · West (U.S.) · History · 19th century · Food habits · Frontier and pioneer life · Cookery, American · Western style · Overland journeys to the Pacific · Social life and customs · Discovery and exploration · United States · Territorial expansion · Horsman, Reginald
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(LOWER LEVEL) GT2853.U5 H67 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	GT2853.U5 H67 2008	AVAILABLE

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American Leviathan : Empire, Nation, And Revolutionary Frontier

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Patrick Griffin
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Hill and Wang, 2007
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The war that raged along America’s frontier during the period of the American Revolution was longer, bloodier, and arguably more revolutionary than what transpired on the Atlantic coast. Patrick Griffin recaptures a chaotic world of settlers, Indians, speculators, British regulars, and American and state officials, vying with one another to remake the West during its most formative period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Frontier and pioneer life · Ohio River Valley · West (U.S.) · History · Revolution, 1775-1783 · To 1848 · United States · Territorial expansion · Influence · Griffin, Patrick, 1965-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F517 .G79 2007 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F517 .G79 2007	AVAILABLE

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Our Savage Neighbors : How Indian War Transformed Early America

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Peter Silver
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2008
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- Table of contents only
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“No recent work of history…has presented such a distinctive?and beautifully resonant?authorial voice.”?John Demos, Yale University The colonial communities of eighteenth-century America were perhaps the most racially, ethnically, and religiously mixed societies on earth. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Indians of North America · History · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · First contact with Europeans · Wars · Frontier and pioneer life · United States · Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 · Race relations · Silver, Peter
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(LOWER LEVEL) E77 .S573 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E77 .S573 2008	AVAILABLE

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Hattie Big Sky

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Kirby Larson
Publication Details
Book, 1st ed, Delacorte Press, 2006
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Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle’s homesteading claim. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously leaves Iowa to prove up on her late uncle’s homestead claim near Vida, Montana. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Self-reliance · Juvenile fiction · Frontier and pioneer life · Orphans · World War, 1914-1918 · United States · Fiction · Montana · History · 20th century · Larson, Kirby
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 L3343h AVAILABLE

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CHILD LIT (LOWER)	804 L3343h	AVAILABLE

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William Henry Jackson’s "The Pioneer Photographer"

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compiled, edited, and annotated by Bob Blair ; with original text from the 1929 edition by William H. Jackson in collaboration with Howard R. Driggs ; foreword by Lee Whittlesey
Publication Details
Book, Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Jackson, William Henry, · 1843-1942 · Travel · West (U.S.) · Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) · Frontier and pioneer life · Photography · History · 19th century · 20th century · Photographers · United States · Biography · Description and travel · Pictorial works · Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942 · Blair, Bob · Driggs, Howard R. 1873-1963
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OVERSIZE (UPPER) F594 .J165 2005 AVAILABLE

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OVERSIZE (UPPER)	F594 .J165 2005	AVAILABLE

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Pioneer Life In The American West

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Christy Steele
Publication Details
Book, World Almanac Library, 2005
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Frontier and pioneer life · West (U.S.) · Juvenile literature · K-12 elementary · Pioneers · History · Juvenile literature · K-12 elementary · 19th century · K -12 elementary · 1890-1945 · United States · Territorial expansion · Steele, Christy, 1970-
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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER) He.211 W672p 2005 AVAILABLE

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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER)	He.211 W672p 2005	AVAILABLE

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One West, Two Myths : A Comparative Reader

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edited by C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker
Publication Details
Book, University of Calgary Press, 2004
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Frontier and pioneer life · Canada, Western · West (U.S.) · Cross-cultural studies · Legends · History · Canada · Boundaries · United States · Higham, C. L · Thacker, Robert, 1951-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F1060.94 .O54 2004 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F1060.94 .O54 2004	AVAILABLE

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Books On The Frontier : Print Culture In The American West, 1763-1875

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by Richard W. Clement
Publication Details
Book, Library of Congress, 2003
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From the end of the French and Indian War through the nineteenth century, the pioneers of the American book trade moved west, motivated, to varying degrees, by bibliophilia, enterprise, and a spirit of adventure. Through their own lively anecdotes and recollections, Richard Clement offers a history of book publishing and trade on the American frontier in Lexington, Louisville, and St Louis, where Joseph Charless opens various bookstores and print shops. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Book industries and trade · United States · History · West (U.S.) · Printing · Books and reading · Newspaper publishing · Frontier and pioneer life · Territorial expansion · Clement, Richard W., 1951-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Z473 .C59 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Z473 .C59 2003	AVAILABLE

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American Frontier : Westward Expansion

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by George Robert Lee
Publication Details
Book, Mark Twain Media, Inc, 1995
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Frontier and pioneer life · K-12 elementary · United States · History · Lee, George Robert · Mark Twain Media
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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER) He.21 M374a 1995 AVAILABLE

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K-12 CURRICULUM (LOWER)	He.21 M374a 1995	AVAILABLE

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Measuring America : How An Untamed Wilderness Shaped The United States And Fulfilled The Promise Of Democracy

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Andro Linklater
Publication Details
Book, Walker & Co, 2002
Description
Measuring America is the fascinating, provocative, and eye-opening story of why America has ended up with its unique system of weights and measures?the American Customary System, unlike any other in the world?and how this has profoundly shaped our country and culture. English, Scottish, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, and other settlers had all brought their own systems with them (more than 100,000 different units are reckoned to have been in daily use), and in his first address to Congress, George Washington put the establishment of a single system of weights and measures immediately after a national defense and a currency as the United States? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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National characteristics, American · Public lands · United States · History · Frontier and pioneer life · Surveying · Surveyors · Geography · Surveys · Territorial expansion · Ohio River Valley · Linklater, Andro
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(LOWER LEVEL) E161.3 .L46 2002 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	E161.3 .L46 2002	AVAILABLE

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The American Frontier : Opposing Viewpoints

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Mary Ellen Jones, book editor
Publication Details
Book, Greenhaven Press, 1994
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Frontier thesis · Frontier and pioneer life · United States · Territorial expansion · West (U.S.) · History · Jones, Mary Ellen, 1937-
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REFERENCE (MAIN) E179.5 .A47733 1994 AVAILABLE

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REFERENCE (MAIN)	E179.5 .A47733 1994	AVAILABLE

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Mary Hallock Foote : Author-illustrator Of The American West

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Darlis A. Miller
Publication Details
Book, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002
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Foote, Mary Hallock, · 1847-1938 · Novelists, American · 19th century · Biography · 20th century · Women and literature · West (U.S.) · History · Women pioneers · Illustrators · United States · Frontier and pioneer life · In literature · Miller, Darlis A., 1939-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS1688 .M55 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS1688 .M55 2002	AVAILABLE

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Writing The Pioneer Woman

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Janet Floyd
Publication Details
Book, University of Missouri Press, 2002
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American prose literature · Women authors · History and criticism · Frontier and pioneer life · United States · Historiography · Women immigrants · Biography · Women pioneers · Immigrants’ writings, American · History and criticism · Women and literature · History · Autobiography · Floyd, Janet
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS366.F76 F58 2002 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS366.F76 F58 2002	AVAILABLE

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Army Regulars On The Western Frontier, 1848-1861

Attribution
Durwood Ball
Publication Details
Book, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001
Description
Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; Unlike previous histories, this book argues that the politics of slavery profoundly influenced the western mission of the regular army–affecting the hearts and minds of officers and enlisted men both as the nation plummeted toward civil war. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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United States. · Army · History · 19th century · Frontier and pioneer life · West (U.S.) · Indians of North America · Government relations · 1789-1869 · 19th century · Civil-military relations · Violence · History, Military · United States · Military policy · Race relations · Ball, Durwood, 1960-
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(LOWER LEVEL) F593 .B18 2001 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	F593 .B18 2001	AVAILABLE

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