Army Regulars on the Western Frontier
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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.