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Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910.(Brief article)(Book review)
Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 by Andrew R. Graybill. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 275 pp., illus., $24.95
This is an interesting exercise. About the only important thing the North-West Mounted Police and Texas Rangers had in common was that they started about the same time. The differences, however, were significant: one was a federal body, the other state-controlled; one had the policy of making peace with the Indians, the other was to drive them out of the territory; one had a history of limited violence while the other was marked by violence; one was under strict military-type control while the other was not. And it goes on and on.
From time to time, the author finds what he considers to be points of comparison and dwells on ...
- Ranger; North American frontier soldier.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2008 700+ words
9780788446788 Ranger; North American frontier soldier. Wulff, Matt. Heritage Books 2008 161 pages...Paperback F591 Wulff describes the activities of several North American Ranger units of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
- Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier,...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Savage, William W., Jr. February 1, 2009 700+ words
...the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910. By Andrew R. Graybill. (Lincoln...the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 offers superior treatment of an...
- La Salle: Explorer of the North American Frontier.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly March 21, 1994 700+ words
LA SALLE: Explorer of the North American Frontier Anka Muhlstein, translated by Willard Wood. Arcade, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 1-55970-219-2 Robert Cavelier de La Salle...
- John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Kreyche, Gerald F. March 1, 2007 700+ words
JOHN SUTTER A Life on the North American Frontier BY ALBERT L. HURTADO UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS 2006, 412 PAGES, $34.95 Most persons know about John Sutter largely in...
- John Sutter; a life on the North American frontier.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2006 700+ words
9780806137728 John Sutter; a life on the North American frontier. Hurtado, Albert L. U. of Oklahoma Pr. 2006 412 pages $34.95 Hardcover F865 John Sutter (1803-1880) was a Swiss expatriate...
- Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American...
- Magazine article from: Booklist Hooper, Brad February 15, 1999 700+ words
Ravage, John W. Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American Frontier. 1997. Univ. of Utah, $24.95 (0-87480-546-5). To a large extent, pioneers in the Old West have been portrayed...
- Hurtado, Albert L. John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Bender, Nathan E. September 1, 2006 700+ words
Hurtado, Albert L. John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier. Univ. of Oklahoma. Oct. 2006. c.416p. photogs. maps. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8061-3772-X. $34.95. BIOG This...
- Black Pioneers.(Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North...
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch April 1, 2009 700+ words
...men. Now in an updated and expanded second edition, "Black Pioneers: Images Of The Black Experience On The North American Frontier" by John W. Ravage (Professor Emeritus of Mass Media, University of Wyoming" is a seminal work of meticulous...
- Black Pioneers: Images of the Black Experience on the North American...
- Magazine article from: Booklist Egloff, Fred December 15, 1997 700+ words
Ravage, John W. Dec. 1997.217p. index. illus. Univ. of Utah, $24.95 (0-87480-546-5). DDC: 978. Pioneers in the Old West, to a large extent, have been portrayed as white men, and the roles played by African American men and women have been largely overlooked. Ravage goes a long way in demonstrating
- Making a path by walking: Loretto pioneers facing the challenges of Catholic...
- Magazine article from: Historical Studies Norman, Marion January 1, 1999 700+ words
The five Loretto pioneers who, after an exhausting six weeks' journey from Dublin via Liverpool and New York, arrived on the Toronto waterfront on the early afternoon of 16 September 1847 (1) had little idea of what lay in store for them in this first mission of their community to North America.
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