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Frederic L. Paxson. The Last American Frontier
The Last American Frontier
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PREFACE
THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER
CHAPTER I. THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
CHAPTER II. THE INDIAN FRONTIER
CHAPTER III. IOWA AND THE NEW NORTHWEST
CHAPTER IV. THE SANTA FÉ TRAIL
CHAPTER V. THE OREGON TRAIL
CHAPTER VI. OVERLAND WITH THE MORMONS
CHAPTER VII. CALIFORNIA AND THE FORTY-NINERS
CHAPTER VIII. KANSAS AND THE INDIAN FRONTIER
CHAPTER IX "PIKE'S PEAK OR BUST"2
CHAPTER X. FROM ARIZONA TO MONTANA
CHAPTER XI. THE OVERLAND MAIL
CHAPTER XII. THE ENGINEERS' FRONTIER
CHAPTER XIII. THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD
CHAPTER XIV. THE PLAINS IN THE CIVIL WAR
CHAPTER XV. THE CHEYENNE WAR
CHAPTER XVI. THE SIOUX WAR
CHAPTER XVII. THE PEACE COMMISSION AND THE OPEN WAY
CHAPTER XVIII. BLACK KETTLE'S LAST RAID
CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST OF THE RAILWAYS
CHAPTER XX. THE NEW INDIAN POLICY
CHAPTER XXI. THE LAST STAND OF CHIEF JOSEPH AND SITTING BULL
CHAPTER XXII. LETTING IN THE POPULATION3
NOTE ON THE SOURCES
INDEX
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Frederic L. Paxson
Published by Good Press, 2019
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The acts by which the United States formulated and carried out its responsibilities towards the Indian tribes were far from the ideal. In theory the disposition of the government was generally benevolent, but the scheme was badly conceived, while human frailty among officers of the law and citizens as well rendered execution short of such ideal as there was.
For thirty years the government under the Constitution had no Indian policy. In these years it acquired the habit of dealing with the tribes as independent—"domestic dependent nations," Justice Marshall later called them—by means of formal treaties. Europe thought of chiefs as kings and tribes as nations. The practice of making treaties was based on this delusion. After a century of practice it was finally learned that nomadic savages have no idea of sovereign government or legal obligation, and that the assumption of the existence of such knowledge can lead only to misconception and disappointment.
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