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.
| ISBN: | 9780806133126 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2001 |
| Author: | Durwood Ball |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
Land forces and warfare History of the Americas Indigenous peoples |