Founding the Far West | Founding the Far West

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Author: David Alan Johnson
First Published: 1992
Type of Work: Political history
Time of Work: 1840-1890
Setting: California, Oregon, and Nevada
Principal Characters: William McKendree Gwin, James McHall Jones, Charles Tyler Botts, Henry Wager Halleck, Lansford Hastings, Morton Matthew McCarver, La Fayette Grover, George Williams, Matthew Deadly, Delazon Smith, Thomas Jefferson Dryer, David Logan, John Neely Johnson, John Anderson Collins, Thomas Fitch, Charles E. De Long
Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, History
Subjects: Culture, Ideology, Politics, West, U.S., Immigration or emigration, Civil War, Citizenship, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Gold mines or mining, Constitutions
Locales: California, Oregon, Nevada

In this political history of the founding of the states of California, Oregon, and Nevada, David Alan Johnson has attempted to combine a study of ideology and culture with individual biography. Using as his focal points the movement into statehood of three territories—California in 1849, Oregon in 1857, and Nevada in 1864—he examines both the society found in each area and the people who brought their individual beliefs and visions with them to this frontier land. Johnson’s study covers the years 1840 to 1890, half a century centered around the Civil War. Although most of the...

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