Yankees in paradise : the Pacific Basin frontier / Arrell Morgan Gibson ; completed with the assistance of John S. Whitehead.
Material type: TextSeries: Histories of the American frontierPublication details: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1993.Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 495 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0826314422 (cl)
- 9780826314420 (cl)
- 0826314430 (pa)
- 9780826314437 (pa)
- DU30 .G53 1993
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-469) and index.
America's last frontier : the Pacific Basin -- The natural setting -- The human setting -- Pioneer explorers -- In the wake of the pioneers -- The Yankee advent -- The maritime fur frontier -- Pacific Basin whalers as frontiersmen -- Yankee scavengers in the Pacific Basin -- The maritime trading frontier -- The mining frontier -- The agrarian frontier -- The missionary frontier -- The military frontier -- Nationalizing currents and Yankee frontiers -- Writers as pioneers -- The frontierlegacy in the Pacific Basin.