Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850

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The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains andalong the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies anddeveloped new institutions to cope with life in the wilderness. In this thoroughrevision of his classic account, Malcolm J. Rohrbough tells the dramatic story ofthese men and women from the first Kentucky settlements to the closing of thefrontier. Rohrbough divides his narrative into major time periods designed toestablish categories of description and analysis, presenting case studies that focuson the county, the town, the community, and the family, as well as politics andurbanization. He also addresses Spanish, French, and Native American traditions andthe anomalous presence of African slaves in the making of this story.