"When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses ..."
"Through the 1880's steps were taken to break the power of tribal chiefs, while
educational opportunities were provided for younger Indians. The policy was
climaxed by the passage of the Dawes Severally Act (1887), which provided that
all tribal lands should be divided among the Indians, with each receiving an
adequate farm. As the Dawes Act was applied to tribe after tribe the reservations
were broken up and the Indians absorbed in ..."
America's Frontier Story(1st Edition) A Documentary History of Westward Expansion by MartinRidge, Ray Allen Billington Paperback, 657 Pages, Published 1969 by Holt, Rinehart And Winston ISBN-13: 978-0-03-081202-6, ISBN: 0-03-081202-X
"To tell the story of America's three-centuries long conquest of new frontiers is to chronicle what Lord Bryce has called the most American part of the American past."
"The American West and its history have generated exceptional media attention in the past few years. New scholarship and interpretations have enriched and enlivened almost every part of the field. This book collects seventeen of the most exciting and provocative essays that have appeared in historical journals. Two date from the 1960s, and some as recently as the mid-1990s. Each essay is intended to illuminate a topic, and each is prefac ..."
"Traces the development of the Far West and Great Plains after the passing of the California gold rush, followed by cattlemen, merchants, and bankers"
Contested Empire Peter Skene Ogden and The Snake River Expeditions (Paperback) by John Phillip Reid, MartinRidge Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Oklahoma Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4932-5, ISBN: 0-8061-4932-9
Ignatius Donnelly(Updated) The Portrait Of A Politician (Borealis Books) by MartinRidge Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1991 by Minnesota Historical Society Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87351-262-6, ISBN: 0-87351-262-6
"While Donnelly, retired from politics, was reading in his excellent library in the "
shades of Nininger,"42 Windom and Ramsey ... Assuming he would run for the
House, General Jolm Averill, acting with Donnelly's tacit consent, sought out
Horace Austin from southern Minnesota as "our kind of ... "Ibid., H. John to I. D.,
August 20, 1869; T. Howard to I. D., August 20, 1869; S. Daughty to I. D., August
25, 1869; ..."
Westward Expansion(5th Edition) A History of the American Frontier by Ray Allen Billington, MartinRidge Hardcover, 892 Pages, Published 1982 by Prentice Hall College Div ISBN-13: 978-0-02-309860-4, ISBN: 0-02-309860-0
"When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses ..."
Ignatius Donnelly(1st Edition) The Portrait of a Politician by MartinRidge Hardcover, 435 Pages, Published 1962 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-71480-6, ISBN: 0-226-71480-2
"Bound in the publisher's original cloth over boards, spine stamped in gilt. Dust jacket has one small closed tear at the top edge is rubbed at the extremities. Black & white illustrations throughout."
"This account of the French era in Canada is the most original treatment of the subject in over a century. The analysis and ideas in the first edition helped create a whole new school of thought about Canadian history. Over 50,000 copies have been used in classrooms in Canada and the United States in the decade since its publication. In this revised edition, the author updates the bibliography and adds new ideas advanced in the 1970s tha ..."
"Career: Journalist, Neue Mode; free-lance designer for Christian Aujard, Brecco
and others. ... 1986; fragrances introduced, 1987; Joop jeans added, 1989; ready
-to-wear fur collection introduced, 1990. ... Until Sander and Joop, Germany had
few designers of sexy clothing achieving world-class status: suddenly, after ... In
telling his own story in a 1993 press release, with a merchant's beguiling fluency,
Joop cites as an important ..."
Frederick Jackson Turner Wisconsin’s Historian of the Frontier by MartinRidge 88 Pages, Published 2016 by Wisconsin Historical Society ISBN-13: 978-0-87020-779-2, ISBN: 0-87020-779-2
"Wisconsin's Historian of the Frontier Martin Ridge. This BOOK BEGAN through
the efforts of Paul Hass, senior editor at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
who first approached me to write a brief introduction to a fine print collectors'
edition of Frederick Jackson Turner's essay, “The Significance of the Frontier in
American History." That edition, published in 1985 by the Silver Buckle Press of
the University of Wisconsin– ..."
"'I'll be back on Monday, and you better have five grand,' Brennan told the cleric, '
otherwise I am going to the Guards, then all Loch an Iúir (Loughanure) will know.'
Greene reported this confrontation to Dooley, but said he still didn't know what it
was everyone would know. He decided to call Brennan's bluff and told him to go
to the Guards. He said that Brennan never mentioned during either visit what it
was he was supposed to ha ..."
Breaking the Silence One Garda's Quest to Find the Truth by MartinRidge, Gerard Cunningham Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2008 by Gill & Macmillan, Limited ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-4397-9, ISBN: 0-7171-4397-X
"Martin Ridge was approaching retirement after a long career with An Garda Siochana. Posted to a quiet corner of Co. Donegal, he found himself investigating one of the most horrific series of child sex abuse cases in Ireland. At Christmas 1997, a local priest Fr Eugene Greene reported to the Gardai that a man had tried to blackmail him. His hubris set in motion a Garda investigation which revealed him as a serial child sex abuser for dec ..."
"The result was that many people gave more than one defining characteristic.”
They fall into two broad categories: geographical definitions such as aridity,
scenery, open space, lack of population density, or environment; and cultural
definitions such as openness, friendliness, or other attitudes; a common and
recent frontier history; or that the West is a myth or state of mind. Clearly, here, as
in the replies to the other two ques ..."