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Westward Expansion: Primary Sources »
Authors: Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast
ISBN-13: 9780787648640, ISBN-10: 0787648647
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Gale Research, Incorporated
Date Published: September 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sara Pendergast
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| Introduction | xi | |
| Reader's Guide | xv | |
| Timeline | xvii | |
| Words to Know | xxxv | |
| Research and Activity Ideas | xliii | |
| Chapter 1 | Claiming the Near West: Territorial Expansion to 1812 | 1 |
| Disrupting the Balance of Power | 2 | |
| The French and Indian War (1754-63) | 3 | |
| Opening the West | 4 | |
| The Revolutionary War (1776-83) | 5 | |
| The Ordinance of 1785 | 7 | |
| Excerpt from the Land Ordinance of 1785 (box) | 7 | |
| The Northwest Ordinance | 8 | |
| Taking Indian Land | 9 | |
| Land Sales | 10 | |
| Carving Farms from the Forest | 10 | |
| Obstacles to Expansion | 12 | |
| The Louisiana Purchase | 14 | |
| The Coming of the War of 1812 | 16 | |
| Tecumseh and Indian Resistance | 16 | |
| The Battle of New Orleans (box) | 17 | |
| Chapter 2 | Opening the West | 21 |
| The Fur Trade | 22 | |
| Claiming the Land | 23 | |
| Discovering the Land's Riches: Lewis and Clark | 24 | |
| Sacajawea (box) | 28 | |
| The Inhabited West | 29 | |
| Founding Astoria | 33 | |
| Trappers Map the West | 34 | |
| Topographical Engineers | 35 | |
| The Mountain Man Rendezvous (box) | 36 | |
| John Fremont, Promoter of the West | 37 | |
| Mapping the Inland Territories | 40 | |
| Chapter 3 | Driving the Indians Westward: Indian Removal to 1840 | 43 |
| First Encounters | 44 | |
| Following God's Plan | 44 | |
| The White Tide | 45 | |
| Early Hostilities | 46 | |
| Dividing the Land | 46 | |
| Fighting for the Old Northwest | 48 | |
| Little Turtle's War | 49 | |
| Defeating Tecumseh | 49 | |
| Driving Native Americans Westward | 52 | |
| Andrew Jackson, Indian Fighter | 52 | |
| The Seminole Wars | 52 | |
| Indian Removal | 53 | |
| The Trail of Tears | 54 | |
| Manifest Destiny and the Plight of Native Americans | 55 | |
| Chapter 4 | Claiming the Far West: Territorial Expansion after 1812 | 59 |
| The Dreams of a President | 60 | |
| The Drive for Expansion | 62 | |
| Manifest Destiny (box) | 63 | |
| Texas | 64 | |
| Acquiring the Oregon Territory | 66 | |
| War with Mexico | 68 | |
| The Gadsden Purchase (box) | 70 | |
| Populating the West | 70 | |
| Land and Gold | 70 | |
| Farmers and Ranchers | 72 | |
| The End of the Frontier | 74 | |
| Chapter 5 | Trails West | 77 |
| The First Expeditions | 77 | |
| The Father of the Santa Fe Trail | 79 | |
| Susan Shelby Magoffin: A Woman on the Santa Fe Trail (box) | 80 | |
| Near Death at the Cimarron Cutoff | 80 | |
| Danger on the Trail | 82 | |
| The Oregon Trail | 84 | |
| The Great Migration | 86 | |
| The Routes West | 88 | |
| Stocking a Wagon | 92 | |
| The Donner Party (box) | 94 | |
| Indians on the Trail | 96 | |
| Death on the Trail | 97 | |
| Other Dreams, Other Trails | 98 | |
| Trails' End | 102 | |
| Chapter 6 | The Gold Rush | 105 |
| California before the Gold Rush | 106 | |
| The Discovery of Gold | 110 | |
| John Sutter (box) | 113 | |
| Gold Fever | 114 | |
| Getting There | 115 | |
| Levi Strauss (box) | 118 | |
| In the Goldfields | 120 | |
| The Mining Camps | 122 | |
| Vigilante Justice | 123 | |
| A Diverse Country | 124 | |
| Modern Robin Hood: Joaquin Murieta | 126 | |
| Gold Rush Legacy | 126 | |
| Chapter 7 | Winning the West: Indian Wars after 1840 | 131 |
| Indians of the Southwest | 132 | |
| Navajo Resistance | 133 | |
| The Apache | 135 | |
| Cochise | 136 | |
| Blood on the Plains | 137 | |
| The Sand Creek Massacre | 139 | |
| Geronimo (box) | 139 | |
| The War Escalates | 140 | |
| Black Hills Battles | 141 | |
| The Battle of Little Bighorn | 142 | |
| The End of the Indian Wars | 143 | |
| Chapter 8 | Westward Expansion and Indian Culture | 149 |
| The Common Culture of Trade | 149 | |
| The End of Native American Power | 151 | |
| The Iroquois | 152 | |
| The Navajo | 155 | |
| The Plains Indians | 159 | |
| Using the Buffalo (box) | 162 | |
| Chapter 9 | The Wild West | 169 |
| Guns and Lawlessness | 170 | |
| The Gold Rush | 170 | |
| The Cowboy Frontier | 172 | |
| The Cattle Boom | 174 | |
| The Cattle Drive (box) | 176 | |
| The Wild Life of a Cattle Town | 178 | |
| Dancing Cowboys (box) | 180 | |
| Cowboys and Killers | 181 | |
| The Fence Cutter's War | 183 | |
| The End of the Wild West | 184 | |
| Chapter 10 | Religion and the West | 187 |
| The First Missionaries | 187 | |
| Native American Religious Traditions | 188 | |
| Protestant Missionaries | 193 | |
| Mormons | 196 | |
| Peter Cartwright, Methodist Preacher (box) | 197 | |
| Some Must Push and Some Must Pull (box) | 200 | |
| Chapter 11 | Technology and the Making of the West | 205 |
| Canals | 206 | |
| The Stagecoach | 209 | |
| Black Bart (box) | 212 | |
| Railroads | 213 | |
| Mary Fields (box) | 214 | |
| Guns | 217 | |
| The Pony Express | 221 | |
| The Telegraph | 223 | |
| Barbed Wire | 225 | |
| The Barbed Wire Industry (box) | 226 | |
| The Frontier and American Character | 231 | |
| Defining the Frontier | 232 | |
| The Call of the West | 233 | |
| The Difficulties of Moving West (box) | 234 | |
| Manifest Destiny | 235 | |
| The American Character | 236 | |
| Democracy and the Frontier | 237 | |
| Spreading the Myth | 240 | |
| James Fenimore Cooper (box) | 241 | |
| Where to Learn More | 247 | |
| Index | 249 |
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