Frontier farewell the 1870s and the end of the Old West
Between the riversThe "Medicine Line" -- The era of expansion -- Confederation comes west -- The crisis in Red River -- The birth of Manitoba -- Twin scourges: smallpox and war -- The Métis -- The Battle of the Grand Coteau -- The end of the Red River hunt -- "So Long as the Sun Shine...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Regina
University of Regina Press
2014
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| Ausgabe: | New. ed. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Between the riversThe "Medicine Line" -- The era of expansion -- Confederation comes west -- The crisis in Red River -- The birth of Manitoba -- Twin scourges: smallpox and war -- The Métis -- The Battle of the Grand Coteau -- The end of the Red River hunt -- "So Long as the Sun Shines" -- The boundary survey -- By section, township, and range -- The north-west mounted police -- The buffalo -- The road to Little Big Horn -- The events of 1876-77 -- Canada versus the United States -- Fire and starvation -- Surrender -- 1881: the end of the old West -- Epilogue: after events. A history of the Old West of North America from the first explorers in the 18th century to 1881, when Sitting Bull surrendered to the Americans |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. [483] - 496 |
| Beschreibung: | XXII, 527 S. Ill., Kt. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0889773610 0-88977-361-0 9780889773615 978-0-88977-361-5 |