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THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER

Stories from American History


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THE LAST AMERICAN FRONTIER

by

FREDERIC LOGAN PAXSON

Junior Professor of American History in the University of Michigan

Illustrated







New York
The Macmillan Company
1910

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Copyright, 1910,
By the Macmillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped. Published February, 1910.

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PREFACE


I have told here the story of the last frontier within the United
