A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms

The Last American Frontier by Frederic Logan Paxson. The MacMillan Company, 1910.

From the Author’s Preface: I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United States, trying at once to preserve the picturesque atmosphere that has given to the “Far West” a definite and well-understood meaning and to indicate those forces which have shaped the history of the country beyond the Mississippi. In doing it I have had to rely largely upon my own investigations among sources little used and relatively inaccessible. The exact citations of authority, with which I might have crowded my pages, would have been out of place in a book not primarily intended for the use of scholars. But I hope, before many years, to exploit in a larger and more elaborate form the mass of detailed information upon which this sketch is based.

Chapter I. The Westward Movement
Chapter II. The Indian Frontier
Chapter III. Iowa and the New Northwest
Chapter IV. The Santa Fe Trail
Chapter V. The Oregon Trail
Chapter VI. Overland with the Mormons
Chapter VII. California and the Forty-niners
Chapter VIII. Kansas and the Indian Frontier
Chapter IX. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!'
Chapter X. From Arizona to Montana
Chapter XI. The Overland Mail
Chapter XII. The Engineers’ Frontier
Chapter XIII. The Union Pacific Railroad
Chapter XIV. The Plains in the Civil War
Chapter XV. The Cheyenne War
Chapter XVI. The Sioux War
Chapter XVII. The Peace Commission and the Open Way
Chapter XVIII. Black Kettle’s Last Raid
Chapter XIX. The First of the Railways
Chapter XX. The New Indian Policy
Chapter XXI. The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull
Chapter XXII. Letting in the Population
Chapter XXIII. Bibliographical Note

Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today’s technology had been available when first printed, they would be audio books already. I am grateful for the opportunity to record them now. Read online at archive.org

Narrator’s Note: I read only as written. These old books were once solid sellers for bookmen of their time. I believe they can shed light on their times and ours. Loving obscure and remote literature, they are a distinct pleasure for me to read to you. These turn out to be distant and unknown only so long as they remain unread or unheard. Aloha.