Daily life on the nineteenth century American frontier /

Jones, Mary Ellen, 1937-

Daily life on the nineteenth century American frontier / Daily life on the 19th-century American frontier Nineteenth century American frontier Mary Ellen Jones. - Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998. - xiv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Greenwood Press "Daily life through history" series 1080-4749 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index.

The American frontier : simple stereotype, complex reality -- Life on the fur frontier -- Life on the explorers' frontier -- Life on the miners' frontier : the new Eldorado -- Life on the land : Alien exotics-cowboys and settlers -- The Indian frontier and the frontier regulars : the army and the Indians on the Great Plains.

0313296340 (alk. paper)

98012149


Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)


West (U.S.)--Social life and customs.

F596 / .J585 1998

978/.02

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