The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West
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Discoverers: military scientists, ethnologists, and artists in the new empire -- Encountering the elephant: army aid to emigrants on the Platte River road -- Across and on the wide Missouri: the army's role in western transportation and communication -- Posse comitatus in blue: the soldier as frontier lawman -- Dining at the government trough: army contracts and payrolls as community builders -- Uncle Sam's farmers: soldiers as agriculturalists and meteorologists -- Hippocrates in blue: army doctors on the frontier -- Reform the man: post chapels, schools, and libraries -- Sharpening the eagle's talons for domestic duties: the army in public relief work and in protecting the national parks -- In defense of "Poor Lo": military advocacy for Native American rights -- Documenting the experience: soldier journalists, autobiographers, and novelists -- Life after soldiering: entrepreneurs, investors, and retirees.
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PUBLISHED
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1999.
Year Published: 1999
Description: xx, 454 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
080613173X :
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Army -- History -- 19th century.
United States. -- Army -- History -- 19th century.
Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.