Arc of the Medicine Line : mapping the world's longest undefended border across the western plains

Rees, Tony 1948- (Author).

Summary: Over the next two years they endured snowstorms, mosquitoes, flash floods, and the seething tensions from the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, the Metis uprising, and the ongoing Indian Wars, all the while mapping and placing markers across nearly nine hundred miles of unforgiving territory. In drawing the "Medicine Line" they defined the final shape of a new nation and ended, once and for all, the old American dream of Manifest Destiny." --BOOK JACKET.

Record details

ISBN: 1553652789 (Douglas & McIntyre)
ISBN: 0803217919 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781553652786 (Douglas & McIntyre)
ISBN: 9780803217911 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xiv, 393 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-384) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: September 18, 1872 -- 1. Autumn 1872 -- 2. The Northwest Angle -- 3. Winter Work 1873-73 -- 4. Spring 1873 -- 5. Summer 1873 -- 6. Autumn 1873 -- 7. Winter 1873-74 -- 8. Spring 1874 -- 9. Summer 1874 -- 10. Late Summer 1874 -- 11. Autumn 1874 -- 12. The End of the Line -- 13. The Medicine Line.
Action Note:	Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph