Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

The new country; (Record no. 8770)

020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 42481
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 978.02 Bar
Item number 15
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 978.02 Bar
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bartlett, Richard A.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The new country;
Remainder of title a social history of American frontier
Statement of responsibility, etc by Richard A. Bartlett
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford Univ. Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1974
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 487 p
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes Index and Bibliography
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title


I. This land is ours: the sweep across the continent --
Some myths of the American frontier --
The problem of the Native American --
The sweep across the continent: first phase --
Ownership and order: land legislation and provision for government --
The sweep across the continent: final phase --
II. The people --
The basic mix --
Basic traits and new ingredients --
III. Agriculture: the basic endeavor --
Farming the Appalachian frontier --
Farming the Middle West and South --
Far Western farmers and cattlemen --
IV. Despoilment: the rape of the new country --
Destruction and construction by nature and man --
Far Western spoliation --
V. Transportation --
Travel by road --
Water routes and railroads --
VI. New country society --
Men, women, and families --
Society beyond the family --
VII. The urban frontier --
VIII. From new country to settled country.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc From borax mule trains to the canoe stop that was Chicago in the 1830s, this book vividly recreated the tale of the westward movement of pioneers into the heartland of North America. With nearly a century separating historian Richard Bartlett from the end of the movement, Bartlett's broad perspective stresses the continuity and inevitability of this greatest element of America's Golden Age. The book focuses on the settlement of the country, the racial and ethnic composition of the people, agriculture, transportation, developments of the land, the growth of towns and cities, and the nature of frontier society as it brilliantly brings to life the frontier experience as lived by millions of Americans. Bartlett concludes that the pioneer's freedom from restrictions in a new country resulted in the unprecedented burst of energy that settled America in some 114 years.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term Frontier and pioneer life .
Geographic subdivision United States
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term United States
General subdivision Social conditions
Chronological subdivision 1865-1918.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Source of heading or term United States
General subdivision Economic conditions.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type 900 - 999
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date checked out Public note
    Arthur Johnson Memorial Library Arthur Johnson Memorial Library 13.56 1 978.02 Bar 42481 2013-10-25 2013-10-19 In Memory of : L. H. McIntyre