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Westward Expansion(Abridged)
A History of the American Frontier
by Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge, Henry E. Huntington
Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2001 by University Of New Mexico Press
Abridged
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1981-4, ISBN: 0-8263-1981-5

"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 ..."






American History After 1865(9th Edition)
With Questions and Answers (Littlefield, Adams Quality Paperbacks)
by Ray Allen Billington, Martin Ridge, World Trade Press
Paperback, 382 Pages, Published 1981 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-8226-0027-5, ISBN: 0-8226-0027-7

"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 Martin Ridge, 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
The Reader
by Martin Ridge, Walter T. Nugent
Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 1999 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21290-0, ISBN: 0-253-21290-1

"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 ..."






The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, 1859-1900
by Rodman Wilson Paul, Martin Ridge
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-3023-1, ISBN: 0-8061-3023-7

"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, Martin Ridge
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8061-4932-5, ISBN: 0-8061-4932-9






Writing the History of the American West
by Martin Ridge, John B. Hench
Paperback, 109 Pages, Published 1992 by University Of Virginia Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-944026-31-1, ISBN: 0-944026-31-1






Ignatius Donnelly(Updated)
The Portrait Of A Politician (Borealis Books)
by Martin Ridge
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, Martin Ridge
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 ..."






America's Frontier Story
A Documentary History of Westward Expansion
by Martin Ridge, Ray Allen Billington
Paperback, 657 Pages, Published 1980 by Krieger Pub Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-89874-090-5, ISBN: 0-89874-090-8






America's Frontier Story - A Documentary History of Westward Expansion
by Martin Ridge
Paperback, Published 1969 by Holt, Rinehart And Winston
ISBN-13: 978-0-03-083264-2, ISBN: 0-03-083264-0






Ignatius Donnelly(1st Edition)
The Portrait of a Politician
by Martin Ridge
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."






The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760(Updated)
(Histories of the American Frontier (Paperback))
by William John Eccles:, Howard R. Lamar, William Cronon, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber
Paperback, 238 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of New Mexico Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-0706-4, ISBN: 0-8263-0706-X

"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 ..."






Atlas of American Frontiers
by Martin Ridge
Hardcover, 191 Pages, Published 1992 by Rand Mcnally
ISBN-13: 978-0-528-83493-6, ISBN: 0-528-83493-2

"Book by Ridge, Martin"






Contemporary Fashion(1st Edition)
(Contemporary Arts Series)
by Richard Harrison Martin, Richard Martin, Martin Ridge
Hardcover, 600 Pages, Published 1995 by St. James Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-55862-173-2, ISBN: 1-55862-173-3

"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 Martin Ridge
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– ..."






Breaking the Silence
One Garda's Quest to Find the Truth
by Gerard Cunningham, Martin Ridge
319 Pages, Published 2014 by Gill & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-6345-8, ISBN: 0-7171-6345-8

"'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 Martin Ridge, 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 American West
The Reader
by Walter Nugent, Martin Ridge
360 Pages, Published 1999 by Indiana University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-02816-7, ISBN: 0-253-02816-7

"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 ..."






Rocky Mountain West(1st Edition)
Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana, 1859-1915 (Histories of the American Frontier)
by Duane A. Smith, Ray Allen Billington, Howard R. Lamar, Martin Ridge, David J. Weber
Hardcover, 290 Pages, Published 1992 by Univ Of New Mexico Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8263-1339-3, ISBN: 0-8263-1339-6

"Book by Smith, Duane A."



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