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THE RISE OF SPORT by FREDERIC L. PAXSON. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 1917.
FREDERIC L. PAXSON Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER IN HISTORY 1925. He had undergraduate and PhD degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a master’s from Harvard University. He taught at Wisconsin (1910 to 1932) as successor to Frederick Jackson Turner and the University of California-Berkeley from 1932 to 1947. As a historian he was an authority on the American frontier. (Wikipedia)
Narrated by Joseph TablerAudio copyright 2024
Audio cover picture - Photos of America the first America’s Cup winner; John L. Sullivan in 1882; 1896 Baltimore Orioles baseball club. All from Wikipedia.
Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org
Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.
A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
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 PrefaceI. The American Frontier of 1763II. The Forks of the OhioIII. The Shenandoah Country and the TennesseeIV. The Rear of the RevolutionV. The Land ProblemVI. Creation of the Public DomainVII. The National Land SystemVIII. The Old NorthwestIX. The Western BoundariesX. The First New StatesXI. Political Theories of the FrontierXII. Jeffersonian DemocracyXIII. The Frontier of 1800XIV. Ohio: The Clash of PrinciplesXV. The Purchase of LouisianaXVI. Problems of the Southwest BorderXVII. The Bonds of UnityXVIII. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811XIX. The Western War of 1812XX. Stabilizing the FrontierXXI. The Great MigrationXXII. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and IllinoisXXIII. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and AlabamaXXIV. Missouri: The New SectionalismXXV. Public Land ReformXXVI. Frontier FinanceXXVII. The American SystemXXVIII. Jacksonian DemocracyXXIX. The East, and the Western MarketsXXX. The Western Internal ImprovementsXXXI. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825–1841XXXII. The Mississippi Valley BoomXXXIII. The Border States: Michigan and ArkansasXXXIV. The Independent State of TexasXXXV. 1837: The Prostrate WestXXXVI. The Trail to Santa FeXXXVII. The Settlement of OregonXXXVIII. The “State” of DeseretXXXIX. The War with MexicoXL. The Conquest of CaliforniaXLI. Far West and PoliticsXLII. PreemptionXLIII. The Frontier of the FortiesXLIV. The Railroad AgeXLV. Land Grants and the Western RoadsXLVI. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian CountryXLVII. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”XLVIII. The Frontier of the Mineral EmpireXLIX. The Overland RouteL. The Public Lands: Wide OpenLI. The Plains in the Civil WarLII. The Union Pacific RailroadLIII. The Disruption of the TribesLIV. The Panic of 1873LV. Frontier PanaceasLVI. The Cow CountryLVII. The Closed FrontierLVIII. The Admission of the “Omnibus” StatesLIX. The Disappearance of the Frontier
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