Army Regulars on the Western Frontier

by Durwood Ball

Overview

Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian resistance; keeping the peace among feuding Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos; and consolidating United States sovereignty in the region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806133126
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	08/15/2001
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Durwood Ball is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and editor of the New Mexico Historical Review. He is the author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848?1861.