The Passing of the Frontier

"The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved." So begins the first page of this pocket-sized book, introducing the reader to the range, the mines, the cowboys, and cattle trails of the American West. 

The author, Emerson Hough, was a journalist who traveled all over the west in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, and witnessed the area transform from wilderness into settled states. His articles on buffalo hunting at Yellowstone inspired the support of Congress to pass the National Park Protection Act in 1894. 

This first edition book includes a map by W.L G. Joerg of the American Geographical Society, marking the westward advance of the frontier from 1860-1890.