Everett, Derek R.
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
Added to CLICnet on 04/21/2015

Check CLICnet for availability
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index.
• Introduction: the significance of state boundaries — A little patch of ground: the precedents for western state boundaries — The fairest portion of our union: early boundaries in the trans-Mississippi West — On the extreme frontier: the western Arkansas boundary — Blood will be shed: the Missouri-Iowa boundary — Nature has marked out the boundaries: the Oregon country boundaries — A state bordering upon anarchy: the California-Nevada boundary — Two distinct civilizations: the New Mexico-Colorado boundary — Let us divide: the Dakota boundaries — A broader view of borderlands.

Subjects:

• United States — Boundaries — History.
• West (U.S.) — Boundaries — History.
• United States — Territorial expansion.
• United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155
• United States, West. fast (OCoLC)fst01243255
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

Requested by Lansing, M