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Frontiers of the Northwest: a history of the upper Missouri valley
1950, [D. Appleton-Century], P. Smith
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Frontiers of the Northwest: a history of the upper Missouri valley
1940, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated
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Table of Contents
I. The Frontier of the Miner
Introduction
The gold rush to colorado
Gold in idaho
The gold frontier in montana
The gold frontier in wyoming
The black hills gold rush
The search for a new gold frontier
Mining and prospecting on the gold frontier
Transportation and travel to the gold fields
Boom prices in the gold camps
The characters in the pageant
The calamity jane myth
Saloons and hurdy-gurdies
Gamblers and games of chance
Cultural life
Education
Religion
The theater on the mining frontier
Justice in the mining camps
II. The Frontier of the Buffalo
Introduction
Buffalo east of the mississippi
Buffalo in the red river valley
The buffalo range of the southwest
Accounts of early explorers and travelers
Hunting the buffalo
Preparations of buffalo skins
Types of robes
Buffalo and the early fur trade
Trading for robes
Missouri steamboating and the buffalo trade
DIvision into northern and southern herds
The southern herd is slaughtered
The buffalo frontier in the northwest
Professional hunters
Buffalo bones
III. The Frontier of the Cattle-Rancher
Introduction
Early cattle in wyoming and montana
Early cattle-ranching in the territory of dakota
The cattle of texas
The northern drive
The northwest as a cattle area
Developments in Wyoming
Developments in montana
Developments in dakota
A beef bonanza
A meat-packing experiment on the western plains in the eighties
England as a possible cattle market
The winter of 1886-87
Theodore roosevelt as a cattleman
Prices and profits
Foreigners and foreign capital
Improvement of range stock
Cattle associations
Cattle associations in action
The indian menace
The cattle thief
Life on the range
The advance of the agricultural frontier
The johnson county war
The end of the open range
IV. The Frontier of the Sheep-Rancher
Introduction
Early sheep-raising in the northwest
The expansion of sheep-ranching
Profits and prices
The struggle between sheepmen and cattlemen
The sheep herder
Horse-ranching in the northwest
Horse thieves
V. The Frontier of Settlement
Introduction
Early settlements and town-sites in dakota
Early settlement in the valley of the red river of the north
Factors working against early settlement
Factors favoring early settlement
Development in dakota to 1870
Boom and depression in dakota, 1870-1878
The early settlement of wyoming
The early settlement of montana
Immigration to montana, 1870-1880
The dakota boom, 1879-1886
Settlement in montana after 1880
Settlement in wyoming after 1880
Immigration activities
Colonization projects
County-seat fights
Some forgotten towns
VI. The Frontier of Agriculture
Introduction
Agriculture in early dakota
Early agriculture in montana
Early agriculture in wyoming
Bonanza farming in the red river valley
Grasshopper plagues
Climatic handicaps
Credit and interest
The grange in the northwest
The agricultural fair
Towns and settlements
The theater on the great plains
Life of the frontier farmer
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 595-612).
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