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Migration/Migrant

 

Bigart, Robert, “‘Charlot Loves His People’: The Defeat of Bitterroot Salish Aspirations for an Independent Bitterroot Valley Community,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 60 (Spring 2010), 24–44.

Britz, Kevin, “Deadwood’s Days of ’76: The Wild West Show as Community Celebration,” South Dakota History, 40 (Spring 2010), 52–84. Heavily illustrated.

Burton, H. Sophie, “Vagabonds along the Spanish Louisiana–Texas Frontier, 1769–1803: ‘Men Who Are Evil, Lazy, Gluttonous, Drunken, Libertinous, Dishonest, Mutinous, Etc., Etc., Etc.—And Those Are Their Virtues,’” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 113 (April 2010), 438–67.

Campbell, Colin D., and Rosemary G. Campbell, “Early Land Leases in the Cherry Valley Patent, 1743–1851,” New York History, 90 (Winter–Spring 2009), 59–77.

Goitein, Patricia L., “Meet Me in Heaven: Confronting Death along the Galena Trail Frontier, 1825–1855,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 248–81.

Green, Michael, “Abraham Lincoln, Nevada, and the Law of Unintended Consequences,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 52 (Summer 2009), 85–108.

Hightower, Michael J., “Willard Johnston, Homesteader and Frontier Banker, 1881–1904,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Winter 2009–2010), 408–31.

Kazakova, O. Yu., “Tokvilevskaia nhaditsiia vospriiatiia amerikanskogo frontira” (The Toqueville tradition and perceptions of the American frontier), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 84–93. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Meadows, R. Darrell, “Toward a View of Abraham Lincoln’s Trans-Appalachian World in Motion,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, 106 (Summer–Autumn 2008), 333–72.

Sirotinskaia, M. M., “Dzhon Lui O’Salliven: Paradoksy sud’by” (John L. O’Sullivan: Paradoxes of destiny), in Amerikanistika: Aktual’nye podkhody i sovremennye issledovaniia; Mezhvuzovskii sbornik nauchnykh trudov; Iss. 2; Pam’iati akademika N.N. Bolkhovitinova (American studies: Actual viewpoints and modern studies; A collection of universities’ scientific essays; Issue 2; In memory of the academician Nicholai Nicholaevich Bolkhovitinov), 94–121. (Kursk: Kurskii gosudarstvennyi universitet Kursk, 2009. isbn 978-5-88313-671-8.) In Russian.

Skaggs, David Curtis, “River Raisin Redeemed: William Henry Harrison, Oliver Hazard Perry, and the Midwestern Campaign, 1813,” Northwest Ohio History, 77 (Spring 2010), 67–84.

Tichenor, Irene, “Tracking the Mysteries: The Legacy of John Filson’s 1784 Book and Map,” Ohio Valley History, 9 (Winter 2009), 4–26. Heavily illustrated.

Yang, Hong Seuk, “Yeoksaga Francis Parkman eui seobuwa Indian gwan” (Francis Parkman and his portrayals of American Indians and the West), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 30 (Nov. 2009), 35–60. In Korean.

 

Bald, Vivek, “Hands across the Water: Indian Sailors, Peddlers, and Radicals in the U.S., 1890–1965” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360458.

Han, Sangjoon, “American Movement: Nature and Civilization in Turner, Cooper, Twain, and Cather” (State University of New York, Buffalo, 2009). Order No. DA33576032.

Mack, John N., “Swords into Ploughshares: The Struggle to Build an Ordered Community of Liberty on the Southeast Kansas Frontier, 1867–1876” (University of Kansas, 2009). Order No. DA3359772.

Nelson, Paul Thomas, “Utah’s Canyon Country: Hope and Experience Approach an American Desert, 1500–1936” (Southern Methodist University, 2009). Order No. DA3356167.

Tomkins, David Shawn, “Cowboys of the Waste Land: Modernism and the American Frontier” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3355357.

 

Bagley, Will, So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. xxii, 458 pp. $45.00, isbn 978-0-8061-4103-9.)

Inglis, Robin, Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America. (Lanham: Scarecrow, 2008. lxxvi, 429 pp. $121.00, isbn 978-0-8108-5551-9.)

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