Shovel Of Stars The Making of the American

Continuing the saga that began with Wilderness at Dawn, a chronicle of the American West recounts the formation of the remainder of the United States, from the Louisiana Purchase through the settling of Alaska.

This vivid, panoramic history continues the exciting story begun in Wilderness at Dawn, tracing through the eyes--and adventures--of ordinary people the saga of the settlement of the United States.

Ted Morgan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of biographies of FDR, Churchill, and Somerset Maugham. He lives in New York City.

Introduction	p. 13
The Louisiana Purchase and the Gulf States	p. 15
The Missouri Frontier	p. 18
The Mississippi Frontier	p. 43
The Florida Frontier	p. 58
The Northwest Territory and the Missouri Compromise	p. 75
The Indiana-Illinois Frontier	p. 78
The Arkansas Frontier	p. 96
The Michigan Frontier	p. 105
The Wisconsin Frontier	p. 115
The Iowa Frontier	p. 125
The Leap to the Pacific, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act	p. 133
The Oregon Frontier	p. 136
The California Frontier	p. 155
The Minnesota Frontier	p. 182
The Civil War States	p. 197
Bleeding Kansas	p. 198
The West Virginia Dilemma	p. 216
The Nevada Frontier	p. 224
The Nebraska Frontier	p. 233
Texas and the Cattle Frontier	p. 251
The Partisan Logjam	p. 273
The Colorado Frontier	p. 276
The Dakota Frontier	p. 295
The Montana Frontier	p. 316
The Washington Frontier	p. 332
The Wyoming Frontier	p. 349
The Idaho Frontier	p. 362
The Problem States	p. 377
The Utah Frontier	p. 378
The Last Indian Frontier, the First Twentieth-Century State	p. 400
The Last Hispanic Frontier	p. 428
The Far-Flung States	p. 463
The Hawaiian Frontier	p. 464
The Last Frontier	p. 484
The State-Making Process	p. 509
Notes	p. 515
Index	p. 535
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Shovel Of Stars The Making of the American West 1800 to the Present

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