01769cam a2200337 4500 133570312 TxAuBib 20100909120000.0 090526s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009021263 9780826338433 cloth : alk. paper 0826338437 cloth : alk. paper (OCoLC)361947881 DLC DLC BTCTA C#P CDX GEBAY TxAuBib Wooster, Robert, 1956- The American military frontiers : the United States Army in the West, 1783-1900 / Robert Wooster. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2009. xvi, 361 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Histories of the American frontier Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-350) and index. Defeat and victory in the Ohio Valley -- Sword of the nation -- Sharpening the nation's sword -- Asserting national sovereignty -- The wars of Indian removal -- Agent of manifest destiny -- Constabularies in blue -- Frontier regulars and the collapse of the Union -- Civil wars in the borderlands -- The regulars return -- Testing the peace policy -- Conquest of a continent -- Epilogue : the long frontier. 20100909. U.N.M. 2010/09 $39.95. United States Army History 19th century. United States Army Military life History 19th century. Geschichte 1783-1900. Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) West (U.S) History, Military 19th century. United States Territorial expansion History 19th century. Histories of the American frontier.