Contributor
Babcock, C. Merton, ed. 1908-1988.
Imprint:New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1964, c1965]
Descriptionix, 452 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:PART 1. PERSPECTIVES: Westward I go free / Henry David Thoreau -- The significance of the frontier / Frederick Jackson Turner -- The western world frontier / Walter Prescott Webb -- PART 2. TRAIL BLAZERS: The discovery, purchase, and settlement of Kentucke / John Filson -- Explorations in the American desert / Jedediah Strong Smith -- The fur trade in the Pacific / Washington Irving -- A day with the cow column / Jesse Applegate -- PART 3. PIONEER SETTLEMENTS: Society in the cow country / Emerson Hough -- Washoe revisited / J. Ross Browne -- The land of the Dakotas / Hamlin Garland -- Going to God's country / Martha L. Smith -- PART 4. THE FRONTIERSMAN: Back-settlers in America / J. Hector St. John Crévecoeur -- Two kinds of frontiersmen / Timothy Dwight -- In defense of the backwoodsman / Timothy Flint -- Johnny Appleseed: a pioneer hero / W. D. Haley -- PART 5. THE AMERICAN INDIAN: Civilizing the red man / James Fenimore Cooper -- The camp of the wild horse / Washington Irving -- The indian hater / James Hall -- Blood on the snow / Joaquin Miller -- What the indian means to America / Chief Standing Bear -- PART 6: MANIFEST DESTINY: The great valley / William D. Gallagher -- The North American road to India / Thomas Hart Benton -- Squatter's rights and manifest destiny / Josiah Royce -- The Pacific railway / William Gilpin -- Passage to India / Walt Whitman -- PART 7: LITERARY SKETCHES: The last of the boatmen / Morgan Neville -- A moonlight drive / Andy Adams -- The Californian's tale / Mark Twain -- The goosepond school / Richard Malcolm Johnston -- Not a drop of rain in a thousand miles / Wallace Stegner -- PART 8: RELIGION: Great revival in the west / James B. Finley -- The camp meeting / Edward Eggleston -- Mormons and mormonism / Horace Greeley -- The Hell question, and the Rev. John Westlock / Edgar Watson Howe -- PART 9. POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT: How to win an election / David Crockett -- Leatherstocking's encounter with justice / James Fenimore Cooper -- The earliest mining courts and their influence on state life / Charles Howard Shinn -- PART 190: LANGUAGE: The lingo of the west / Thomas Low Nichols -- A rich harvest of new words / M. Schele de Vere -- One January morning / David Crockett -- [ART 11. HUMOR: The horse-swap / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- An affair of honor / Joseph G. Baldwin -- Simon Suggs attends a camp-meeting / Johnson J. Hooper -- Tripetown: twenty minutes for breakfast / George W. Harris -- A Dakota winter / Anonymous -- PART 12. THE FRONTIER IN RETROSPECT: Pioneers! O Pioneers! / Walt Whitman -- The frontier is gone / Frank Norris -- The last of the rugged individualists / Wayne Kernodle -- Something starting over / Thomas Hornsby Ferril.
