The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today.

Documents not only the stories that Lewis and Clark offered about their "road across the continent," but also the large and important stories by and about the Native peoples whose trails they followed and whose lands they described in their journals.

The story of the thirteen-year effort to add the 49th and 50th states to the Union.

First published in 1984, Robert Utley's The Indian Frontier of the American West 1846-1890 is considered a classic for both students and scholars. For this revision, Utley includes scholarship and research that has become available in recent years.

Both a synthesis of the recent literature and an explanation of what happened when distinctly identifiable races interacted on the frontier.

A sweeping history of the cultural clashes between Indians and the British, Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. A story of the contest for land and power across multiple and simultaneous frontiers.

Explores the role of sex and gender on California's multi-cultural frontier under the influences of Spain, Mexico, and the United States.

This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century.

Myres uses extensive source material by and about women to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.

Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.

An overview of mining and its effects on the settlement of the West.

This thought-provoking book by the leading authority on Turner presents the results of modern research in history and the behavioral sciences, concluding that in many ways the Turner hypothesis is a valid one.

The classic history of the Spanish frontier from Florida to California.