Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Maps
Chronology
Introduction
The Dictionary
Bibliography
About the Author
Jay H. Buckley, associate professor of history at Brigham Young
University, is the author of the award-winning book, William Clark:
Indian Diplomat and co-author of By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious
Death of Meriwether Lewis and Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and
the Opening of the American West. Buckley recently served as
President of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation.
Brenden Rensink (PhD, University of Nebraska), assistant director
of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and assistant
professor of history at Brigham Young University, has held faculty
positions at the Joseph Smith Papers; University of Nebraska,
Lincoln; Nebraska Wesleyan University; the University of Nebraska,
Kearney; and Weber State University. He is the author of the
forthcoming Native but Foreign: Transnational Cree, Chippewa and
Yaqui Refugees and Immigrants in the U.S-Canadian and U.S.-Mexican
Borderlands, 1880-present. He is the author of various articles and
anthology chapters on the American West, transnational borderlands,
indigenous history, and genocide studies.
Coauthors Buckley and Rensink encompass the ambitious scope of
expeditions into North American from the late 15th to early 19th
centuries to deliver a chronology, introduction, and dictionary of
more than 300 cross-referenced entries for the various players,
including religious orders and indigenous peoples caught up in the
maelstrom of 'manifest destiny.' The authors wisely dedicate a
third of the work to an extensive bibliography. Verdict: A solid
starting point for readers seeking further exploration of Western
history.
*Library Journal*
This useful guide covers early American exploration and frontier
life, from the late-fifteenth through the late-nineteenth
centuries. More than 300 cross-referenced A-Z entries cover people,
places, events, and institutions. The preface provides scope and
methodology as well as a chronology and four small black-and-white
maps. The entries are brief and concise. 121-page bibliography
completes the volume. A good starting point to help users learn
more about the growth of the American West. It belongs in most
public and academic libraries.
*Booklist*
Historians Buckley and Rensink have worked together to create a
historical dictionary that covers a broad historical time period,
array of people, and political and social issues. The A-Z entries
provide access to information for students and others doing
introductory research. The volume is divided into eight sections,
with a foreword, preface, maps, chronology, introduction,
dictionary, bibliography, and information about the authors. Four
black-and-white maps illustrate the explorations of the American
frontier by French, Spanish, and government agents, and by mountain
men. A chronology lists dates beginning with Viking explorations in
986 through the 1903-06 navigation of the Northwest Passage. The
introduction examines the connotations of the term ‘frontier,’ as
defined in the US and by explorers from different countries. The
dictionary contains both names and terms, with preference given to
individuals or events that had a lasting impact on the expansion of
the American frontier. . . .[T]he work offers ample
cross-references among entries and an excellent, up-to-date
bibliography of sources for the further discovery of information.
Summing Up: Highly recommended. Undergraduates; general
readers.
*CHOICE*
The value of Buckley and Rensink’s work lies in its bibliography.
This is a classified list, and extends to 121 pages. It is far and
away the best feature of the book.
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