Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier

The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on explorers, adventurers, traders, religious orders, developers, and indigenous peoples.

List of contents

Editor's Foreword
Preface
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
The Dictionary
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jay H. Buckley, associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, is the author of the award-winning book, William Clark: Indian Diplomat and co-author of By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis and Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. Buckley recently served as President of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.

Brenden Rensink (PhD, University of Nebraska), assistant director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University, has held faculty positions at the Joseph Smith Papers; University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Nebraska Wesleyan University; the University of Nebraska, Kearney; and Weber State University. He is the author of the forthcoming Native but Foreign: Transnational Cree, Chippewa and Yaqui Refugees and Immigrants in the U.S-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-present. He is the author of various articles and anthology chapters on the American West, transnational borderlands, indigenous history, and genocide studies.

Summary

The Historical Dictionary of the American Frontier covers early Euro-American exploration and development of frontiers in North America. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on explorers, adventurers, traders, religious orders, developers, and indigenous peoples.

Product details

• Authors: Jay H Buckley, Jay H. Buckley, Jay H. Rensink Buckley, Buckley Jay H., Brenden W Rensink, Brenden W. Rensink, Rensink Brenden W.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9781442249585
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4958-5
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; North America, HISTORY / North America, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, HISTORY / Reference, Geographical discovery & exploration, Reference works, History of the Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, North America (USA and Canada)