The Frontier in American development; essays in honor of Paul Wallace Gates.

The Frontier in American development; essays in honor of Paul Wallace Gates. Editor: David M. Ellis; associate editors: Lee Benson [and others.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gates, Paul W. (Paul Wallace), 1901-1999, Benson, Lee
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, Cornell University Press [1969]
Edition:1st ed.]
Subjects:
United States > Public lands.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword, by F. Merk
  • The historian as mythmaker: Turner and the closed frontier, by L. Benson
  • Senators, sectionalism, and the "Western" measures of the Republican Party, by A. G. Bogue
  • The Homestead clause in railroad land grants, by D. M. Ellis
  • Congress looks west: liberal ideology and public land policy in the nineteenth century, by M. E. Young
  • Maine and its public domain: land disposal on the northeastern frontier, by D. C. Smith
  • Frontier attitudes and debt collection in western New York, by R. W. Silsby
  • The mineral lands of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, by I. D. Neu
  • Vicissitudes of an absentee landlord; a case study, by H. Cohen
  • The Scott farms in a new agriculture, 1900-1919, by M. B. Bogue
  • Barrier to settlement: British Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1794, by R. F. Berkhofer, Jr
  • The Ohio-Mississippi flatboat trade; some reconsiderations, by H. N. Scheiber
  • The impact of traders' claims on the American fur trade, by J. L. Clayton
  • British immigrants in the old Northwest, 1815-1860, by C. Erickson
  • The great speculation; an interpretation of mid-continent pioneering, by L. E. Decker
  • The American West and foreign markets, 1850-1900, by M. Rothstein
  • Works by Paul Wallace Gates, by G. P. Colman.

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