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The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West (Paperback)

By: Michael L. Tate (Author)

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The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West examines the army's non-martial contributions to western development. Dispelling timeworn stereotypes, Michael L. Tate shows that the army conducted explorations, compiled scientific and artistic records, built roads, aided overland travelers, and improved river transportation. Army posts offered nuclei for towns, and soldiers delivered federal mails, undertook agricultural experiments, and assembled weather records for forecasting. The "multipurpose" army also provided telegraph service, extended relief to destitute civilians, and protected early national parks. Military posts published records of western life and with civilian officials to enforce the law and frequently championed Indian rights. And soldiers in the frontier army built post schools, chapels, and hospitals that were used by civilians. As Colonel Zachary Taylor said in 1820, "The ax, pick, saw and trowel, has become more the implement of the American soldier than the cannon, musket, or sword."

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