America's Western Frontiers

Front cover of America's Western Frontiers, 1967 edition.

America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West is a book which chronicles the history of the American West from pre-Columbian times through the mid-twentieth century. It was written by John A. Hawgood (1905–1971) and first published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1967. The book was entitled The American West in the United Kingdom.

Hawgood was the pre-eminent British authority in the field. He won the Western History Association's Alfred A. Knopf Western History Prize for this book in 1966. The book also received the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Western Heritage Award for non-fiction books in 1968.

Chapters

Introduction: The Pre-Columbian West

I. Overland Exploration of North America (to 1800)

II. Imperialism of the Pacific (to 1800)

III. Exploring and Exploiting the Louisiana Purchase

IV. Fur Traders and Trappers of the Far West

V. Breaking the Wagon Trails West

VI. By Land and Sea to El Dorado

Appendix. "The Discovery of Gold in California"

VII. The Mining Boom Moves Inland

VIII. The Revolution in Western Transportation

Appendix: "The Pony Express"

IX. The Indian Problem and Its Solution

X. The Cowman's Frontier

XI. Land for the Farmer

XII. The End of the West? Twentieth-Century Frontiers

Epilogue: Other People's Far Wests

Editions

• New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1967. LoC 66-19380.

See also

• Cowman (profession)