Durwood Ball – Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
University of Oklahoma Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0806133120 | 287 pages | PDF | 16 MB
University of Oklahoma Press | 2001 | ISBN: 0806133120 | 287 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian resistance; keeping the peace among feuding Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos; and consolidating United States sovereignty in the region. Overshadowing and complicating the frontier military mission were the politics of slavery and the growing rift between the North and South.