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History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize-winner in History, 1925.

The prize-winning History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 covers a very wide sweep of topics, with unusual strength in handling violent relations between the frontiersman and the Indians. Paxson emphasized the impact on people of the process of moving to the west, downplaying the static aspects of specific localities.

From the Author’s Preface:

When I began my studies in the history of the West some twenty years ago, the State of Colorado, where I worked, still bore the imprint of the struggle of the preceding decade. The frontier was gone; and the frontiersmen there as elsewhere in the United States were adapting themselves to the life of a new century. Turner had already pointed out the significance of the frontier in our history, but the occasional historical pioneer who followed his lead must make his own tools, find his sources, and assemble his bibliographies.

The time is ripe for … synthesis, in which an attempt is made to show the proportions of the whole story.

Author’s Preface

I. The American Frontier of 1763

II. The Forks of the Ohio

III. The Shenandoah Country and the Tennessee

IV. The Rear of the Revolution

V. The Land Problem

VI. Creation of the Public Domain

VII. The National Land System

VIII. The Old Northwest

IX. The Western Boundaries

X. The First New States

XI. Political Theories of the Frontier

XII. Jeffersonian Democracy

XIII. The Frontier of 1800

XIV. Ohio: The Clash of Principles

XV. The Purchase of Louisiana

XVI. Problems of the Southwest Border

XVII. The Bonds of Unity

XVIII. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811

XIX. The Western War of 1812

XX. Stabilizing the Frontier

XXI. The Great Migration

XXII. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and Illinois

XXIII. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and Alabama

XXIV. Missouri: The New Sectionalism

XXV. Public Land Reform

XXVI. Frontier Finance

XXVII. The American System

XXVIII. Jacksonian Democracy

XXIX. The East, and the Western Markets

XXX. The Western Internal Improvements

XXXI. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825-1841

XXXII. The Mississippi Valley Boom

XXXIII. The Border States: Michigan and Arkansas

XXXIV. The Independent State of Texas

XXXV. 1837: The Prostrate West

XXXVI. The Trail to Santa Fe

XXXVII. The Settlement of Oregon

XXXVIII. The “State” of Deseret

XXXIX. The War with Mexico

XL. The Conquest of California

XLI. Far West and Politics

XLII. Preemption

XLIII. The Frontier of the Forties

XLIV. The Railroad Age

XLV. Land Grants and the Western Roads

XLVI. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian Country

XLVII. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”

XLVIII. The Frontier of the Mineral Empire

XLIX. The Overland Route

L. The Public Lands: Wide Open

LI. The Plains in the Civil War

LII. The Union Pacific Railroad

LIII. The Disruption of the Tribes

LIV. The Panic of 1873

LV. Frontier Panaceas

LVI. The Cow Country

LVII. The Closed Frontier

LVIII. The Admission of the “Omnibus” States

LIX. The Disappearance of the Frontier

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