Army Regulars on the Western Frontier

Durwood Ball

Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright

Available from Audible

Book published by University of Oklahoma Press

Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppressing American Indian resistance; keeping the peace among feuding Indians, Hispanics, and Anglos; and consolidating United States sovereignty in the region.

Durwood Ball is Associate Professor of History at the University of New Mexico and editor of the New Mexico Historical Review.