Frontier America / Brownstone, David M

Provides an overview of the settling of the American frontier; contains alphabetically arranged essays that describe specific people, events, legislation, places, and states; and includes lists or resources and a chronology.

Combines narrative text, sidebars, boxes, and extracts from primary sources to explore American frontiers, discussing Native Americans, early voyagers, the European invasion, Spanish America, the fur trade, the Virginia Wars, New England, the French and Indian War, and other related topics.