The farmers' frontier, 1865-1900

Resource Information

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Label

The farmers' frontier, 1865-1900

Statement of responsibility

Gilbert C. Fite

Creator

• Fite, Gilbert Courtland, 1918-2010

Subject

• Agriculture | History | United States
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Agriculture -- United States -- History
• West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century
• United States -- Territorial expansion | History -- 19th century

Language

eng

Summary

When American farmers began their move after the Civil War, the Far West was virtually unsettled. A few thousand Americans called California their home, but between the Pacific Coast and the Missouri River, only isolated pockets of settlement in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and other distant spots challenged nature's monopoly. When the farmers' march slowed at the end of the century, the entire West was occupied, except for the mountain and desert country that still repulsed mankind's advances. In the three decades after 1870, more land was settled and placed under cultivation by farmers than in all the prior history of the continent

Member of

• Histories of the American frontier

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

333.760973

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

• S441
• HD8039.F3

LC item number

• .F48 1966
• U643 1966

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Histories of the American frontier