Frontier America: The Story of the Westward MovementScribner, 1959 - 832 Seiten |
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... Building log forts was not a new idea in colonial defense , but these log strongholds more and more came to be identified with expansion on the raw outer edges of the American frontier . Before 1763 the western land- scape from northern ...
... Building log forts was not a new idea in colonial defense , but these log strongholds more and more came to be identified with expansion on the raw outer edges of the American frontier . Before 1763 the western land- scape from northern ...
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... building experience , Judah went to California in 1854 to help build the Sacramento Valley Railroad . When he had com- pleted this task , he began a series of preliminary surveys in search of a railway route across the mountains . In ...
... building experience , Judah went to California in 1854 to help build the Sacramento Valley Railroad . When he had com- pleted this task , he began a series of preliminary surveys in search of a railway route across the mountains . In ...
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... building . The road made annual dividend payments , and because of close management avoided many of the mistakes which defeated other com- panies . One of its successful policies was dictated by Hill's attitude toward locating track ...
... building . The road made annual dividend payments , and because of close management avoided many of the mistakes which defeated other com- panies . One of its successful policies was dictated by Hill's attitude toward locating track ...
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CHAPTER PAGE I The American FrontierA Perspective | 2 |
The Allegheny Frontier | 26 |
The Frontier at War | 54 |
Urheberrecht | |
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