The Frontier Army In The Settlement Of The West

MICHAEL L. TATE

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine, light blue, marbled front and rear endpapers, xx, 454 pp., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated from photographs, portraits, maps, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index. This book examines the army's non-martial contributions to western development. It points out that the army conducted explorations, compiled scientific and artistic records, built roads, aided overland travelers and improved river transportation. Army forts offered nuclei for towns, and soldiers delivered federal mails, undertook agricultural experiments, and assembled weather records for forecasting. Robert M. Utley says "A valuable contribution to the historiography of the frontier army." As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

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