Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands

289 Pages·2018·37.439 MB·English

by  William S Kiser

Coast-to-Coast Empire

Coast-to-Coast Empire
Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands
William S. Kiser
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN
This book is published with the generous assistance of the Kerr Foundation, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Name: Kiser, William S., 1986– author.
Title: Coast-to-coast empire : Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico borderlands /
William S. Kiser.
Description: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017046329 | ISBN 978-0-8061-6026-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: New Mexico—History—19th century. | Manifest Destiny.
Classification: LCC F801 .K57 2018 | DDC 978.9/04—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046329
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In loving memory of
Tom Burch and Emily Hughes

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Contents
List of Illustrations | ix
Acknowledgments | xi
Introduction | 3
1. Merchant Capitalism and the Santa Fe Trade | 15
2. The Occupation and Conquest of New Mexico | 40
3. Indian Wars and the Contest for the Southwestern Frontier | 71
4. Popular Sovereignty and Peculiar Institutions | 101
5. Railroad Capitalism and the Transcontinental Line | 125
6. The Civil War and the Final Contest for New Mexico | 148
Conclusion | 182
Notes | 185
Bibliography | 241
Index | 261

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Illustrations
Figures
Zebulon Pike | 17
Thomas Hart Benton | 25
Stephen W. Kearny | 41
Manuel Armijo | 49
Charles Bent | 59
Sterling Price | 62
Donaciano Vigil | 67
Edwin V. Sumner | 72
Horace Greeley | 110
Andrew Johnson | 119
James DeBow | 129
Jefferson Davis | 135
Edward R. S. Canby | 152
John R. Baylor | 156
Henry H. Sibley | 159
James H. Carleton | 172
Bosque Redondo | 176
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