Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton PressDuring the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the
Folklorist Attebery (formerly English, the College of Idaho, Caldwell) tells the story of the self-made Idahoan, how he made his fortune in potatoes, his fervent patriotism, and his family's plans for
