Coast-To-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands

by William S Kiser and William S. Kiser

Book Overview

Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, settlers, boundary adjudicators, railway surveyors, and the U.S. Army crossed into and through New Mexico, transforming it into a battleground for competing influences determined to control the region.

Previous histories have treated the Santa Fe trade, the American occupation under Colonel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806160268
• ISBN13: 9780806160269
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"