The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900

by Rodman W. Paul

Book Overview

In this book, his final work, Rodman W. Paul explores the settlement of the American West in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Lured by stories of open spaces, fertile farming, & grazing lands & by the attraction of gold & silver, people from many nations traveled westward by the thousands. Early migrants rode in stagecoaches & Conestoga wagons; their successors, on the transcontinental railroads, which linked western cities with their eastern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060158360
• ISBN13: 9780060158361
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.