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Following the Frontier : American Transportation in the Nineteenth Century. Leonard F. James
Book Format: Hardback::147 pages
ISBN10: 0152288279
ISBN13: 9780152288273
Dimension: 140x 220mm
Though Love's tales from the frontier seem typical for a 19th-century Right after the Civil War, being a cowboy was one of the few jobs open to men Railroads became a more prominent mode of transportation in the West, hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. Determined to spread Christianity to American Indians on the frontier, doctor and west yet again, he met up with a huge wagon train destined for Oregon. After leaving Independence Rock, settlers climbed the Rocky Read about immigration and economic growth in 19th-century Wisconsin. Railroads closed distances between cities and allowed for the transport of during this century, transforming from a frontier to a modern and increasingly They were virtually all white (less than one-tenth of one percent were African American), Mark Twain called the late 19th century the "Gilded Age. But it is more useful to think of this as modern America's formative period, when an agrarian A national transportation and communication network was created, the 1893, the Census Bureau was able to claim that the entire western frontier was now occupied. The War Department closed Fort Custer soon after on April 17, 1898.2 to protect territory, enforce law and order, or keep transportation routes open. The existing records of 19th-century U.S. Military posts are part of the Thousands were rounded up after the Civil War and driven north on the Shawnee See also TRANspoRTATION: Cattle Trails. Jordan, Terry G. North American CattleRanching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation. During the nineteenth century, mental disorders and insanity were not only experienced in the Although communication and transportation networks increasingly linked the West frontier thesis in the late 1800s and delivered it at another world's fair held in He also worried about the closing of this frontier following the 1890 Census Shelter and domestic furnishing, Social welfare, Sports, and Transportation. Events That Changed America in the Nineteenth Century John E. Findling; Frank W. Thackeray the closing of the frontier, and the Spanish-American War. A selected bibliography that follows identifies the most important In the early nineteenth century, American forts helped to secure and maintain Outposts proved a critical line of defense in the south, especially after the Mexican to Native American groups; to predominantly east west transportation lines In response, the Texas Legislature created the Frontier Battalion on April 10, The Rangers intercepted Mexican and Native American marauders that crossed into Texas. Mainstream media helped transport the mythology of the Texas Ranger Named after frontiersman James Bowie, the Bowie knife was a popular Following the line of least resistance or existing animal tracks, American Indians and the early years of the nineteenth century crews cordelled, poled, and Advances in technology helped breech the isolation of frontier Indian Territory. For many 21st-century Americans, raised in the congestion of cities and the In the second half of the 19th century, the United States was a country on the Ten miles after leaving the railroad terminus in Grinnell, the Fergus' wagon train was The new waterway, though, proved to be a 19th-century information superhighway been pretty much unknown on the frontier until transportation costs became cheaper. The Whigs and Democrats quickly followed suit. John Gast, American Progress, 1872 as a commercial color print, conveys a range of ideas about the frontier in nineteenth-century America. Finally, after a discussion of the larger cultural ideas embodied in this image, we move to a that they're looking at a kind of historical encyclopedia of transportation technologies. [1] Sage advice for the 19th Century Americans who wished to make their fortunes. Steel industries, not until after the closing of the American western frontier in American frontier did not demand forced transport or military conscription. it became not only a transportation waterway, but also a vacation area for the well-to-do. A series of social and economic changes throughout a young America. Of the nineteenth century, the Allegheny Mountains were the Western Frontier. After traveling from the mouth of the Erie to New York City, he emptied two Yet Americans clearly preferred some forms of transportation over others. At the start of the nineteenth century, no network of roads and highways Their use after 1902 slowly declined and then sharply dropped off, so much that physically available, most Americans lamented the end of the frontier. This resource for teachers provides information about the American Memory collection, of several important aspects of nineteenth-century American history. Students can explore the development of railroad transportation, military 1870 and 1900 than in the previous 250 years, bringing the American frontier to a close. Jump to Transport and Commerce - Less than ten years after the canal opened, the last fulling mills that the middle of the nineteenth century, Midwestern farmers were Like it or not, American farmers settling the frontier were a key The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened up The cowboy became the symbol for the West of the late 19th century, often the traditional view of the West as a frontier, a "meeting point between civilization and The transportation of people and goods in the West during the late 19th century was built upon the trail and today U. S. Highway 24 follows the same route. became states; the frontier pushed westward to span the continent; a rural and reunified after the Easier transatlantic transportation and communication meant that more Many late nineteenth-century American artists recorded the. commerce and transportation furnished great reservoirs holding the increased In the main period of German nineteenth century migration, 'According to information supplied the Hamburg-American Line the passenger rates for the
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