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The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah - Softcover

Colton, Ray Charles

 
9780806119021: The Civil War in the Western Territories: Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0806119020 ISBN 13: 9780806119021
Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

Between 1861 and 1865 the violent struggles of the Civil War extended into the Western Territories, where they were complicated by the involvement of the Indians. The Confederate leaders had planned to annex a corridor from the Rio Grande in Texas to the California coast. Thus they would have had a pathway to the Pacific Ocean, areas rich in minerals, new territory for the expansion of slavery, and valuable military stores and equipment. They soon found that the land was more difficult to conquer than they had anticipated. The people of the Western Territories for the most part remained loyal to the Union, and the Confederate vision of empire failed to materialize.

The emphasis in this book is on the Union campaigns against the Confederates and the Indians who sought to take advantage of the confusion of the Civil War. Yet it is also shown that the Western Territories came of age as a result of the conflict. When the Confederate invasion had been repelled, the Union leaders undertook vigorous campaigns for extermination or settlement of the Indians on reservations. Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah all acquired their present boundaries and patterns of state government during the Civil War period.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ray C. Colton was Professor of Continuing Education at Brigham Young University; retired of the Institute of Religion, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, University of California at Los Angeles.

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Verlag
University of Oklahoma Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0806119020
ISBN 13 
9780806119021
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
230
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