Beyond the American pale : the Irish in the West, 1845-1910 / David M. Emmons.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Emmons, David M.
Language:	English
Published:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:	Irish Americans > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century. Irish Americans > West (U.S.) > History > 20th century. Catholics > West (U.S.) > History. Immigrants > West (U.S.) > History. Pioneers > West (U.S.) > History. Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.) Migration, Internal > United States > History. West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations > History > 19th century. West (U.S.) > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century. West (U.S.) > History.
Physical Description:	viii, 472 pages
Format:	Book

Contents:

Introduction: The American pale
pt. 1. Unwelcome strangers : the Irish and the American West
From Ireland to America's mythic West : William L. O'Brien's working-class grand tour
Irrepressible conflicts : systems of slavery in the Civil War era
Slavery, the Irish, and Western America
Most unlikely Westerners
Savage twins : Indians and Irish on the border
pt. 2. An alternate frontier : the Irish in the American West
Border wars : clustered Irish across the meridian
Finding a "fair living" : patterns of Irish migration and settlement in the West
The worlds the Irish made : transplanting the townlands to Western America
An alternate frontier : the Irish strain in labor's Western American heartland
Epilogue: A different kind of West
Appendix: Western communities that sent contributions to support Irish nationalism (1880-1882, 1905).