The first ever history of the post-World War II homesteading program that provided frontier land to returning veterans. Reveals the many challenges they faced--and how they helped change our perceptions of the modern American West.

Reopening the Western Frontier documents rural and small town life where the economy was tied to the mining, farming, and ranching of the land

Reopening the American frontier : reducing regulatory barriers and expanding American free enterprise in space : hearing before the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifteenth Congress, first session, April 26, 2017.

The author of "The Fighting Men of the Civil War" now masterfully chronicles the grand history of the territory beyond the Mississippi, with particular attention to exploration, expansion, conflict, and settlement.