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1) The frontier in American history

Author

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Language

English

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Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) presented an essay at the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 that would change the study of American History forever. This essay would ultimately be published with twelve supporting articles to form "The Frontier in American History". Turner was an innovator in that he was one of the first to call attention to the Frontier as an integral part of the study of The United States of America. Turner himself grew up on...

2) Manifest destiny

Author

Heidler, David Stephen

Series

Greenwood guides to historic events1500-1900
Greenwood guides to historic events 1500-1900

Publisher

Greenwood Press

Pub. Date

c2003

Language

English

3) The American frontier: pioneers, settlers & cowboys 1800-1899

Author

Davis, William C

Language

English

Formats

Book, Local Library Checkout Only

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With 52 color illustrations and 280 historical photographs this book masterfully chronicles the history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict and settlement

4) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

Author

O'Reilly, Bil

Series

Bill O'Reilly's Killing

Pub. Date

2020

Language

English

Formats

Book, CD, Large Print, Local Library Checkout Only

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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...

5) The Louisiana Purchase

Author

Burgan, Michael

Series

We the people

Publisher

Compass Point Books

Pub. Date

c2002

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

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Looks at the political and economic history of the region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains which, when purchased by Jefferson in 1803, doubled the size of the United States and led the way to further expansion.

6) Westward expansion and manifest destiny in American history

Author

Worth, Richard

Series

In American history

Publisher

Enslow

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

7) The path of empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power

Author

Fish, Carl Russell

Series

Chronicles of America series v. 46

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

1919

Language

English

8) Which Way to the Wild West?: everything your schoolbooks didn't tell you about America's westward expansion

Author

Sheinkin, Steve

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Description

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Presents the greatest adventures of America's Westward expansion, from the Louisiana Purchase and the gold rush to the Indian wars and life of the cowboy, as well as the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier.

9) First frontier

Author

Stefoff, Rebecca

Series

North American historical atlases

Publisher

Benchmark Books

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

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Chronicles the exploration and settlement of lands west of the Appalachian Mountains during the late 1700s and early 1800s.

10) Lions of the West : Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion

Author

Morgan, Robert

Publisher

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Language

English

Description

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Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.

11) Dreams of El Dorado: a history of the American West

Author

Brands, H. W

Language

English

Formats

Book, Blu-Ray

Description

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Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes readers from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush.

12) A timeline of the colonial world

Author

Samuels, Charlie

Series

History highlights

Publisher

Gareth Stevens Pub

Pub. Date

c2010

Language

English

13) The Spanish West

Author

Time-Life Books

Publisher

Time-Life Books

Language

English

Formats

Book, Non-Circulating Item

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Discusses the land, history, and people of the Southwestern United States.

14) Atlas of westward expansion

Author

Wexler, Alan

Publisher

Facts On File

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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Traces the mass human migration across the North American continent.

15) American republics: a continental history of the United States, 1783-1850

Author

Taylor, Alan

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent. In this beautifully written history of America's formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning destiny. The newly constituted United States actually emerged as a fragile, internally divided union of states contending still with European...

16) The advancing frontier

Author

Hanmer, Trudy J

Publisher

F. Watts

Pub. Date

1986

Language

English

Description

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Traces the history of westward expansion in the United States discussing the evolution of the popular idea of an unlimited frontier and its influence on American thought.

17) The American Frontier

Author

Barr, Roger

Publisher

Lucent Books

Pub. Date

c1996

Language

English

Description

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Examines the history of the formative years of the United States, focusing on westward expansion and the role of the frontier in shaping the new nation.

18) Life as a pioneer

Author

Rajczak Nelson, Kristen

Series

What you didn't know about history

Publisher

Gareth Stevens Publishing

Pub. Date

Language

English

Description

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Featuring fact boxes, social studies content, and graphic organizers, this book, focusing on pioneer life once they claimed their land, describes their sod houses, gardening, and weather conditions.