| Author/Contributor(s): | Ball, Durwood |
| Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
| Date: | 08/15/2001 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.