The Westward Movement
by Charles L. Barstow
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Barstow, Charles L. (Charles Lester), 1867-1951
- Credits
- Produced by Giovanni Fini and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
- Subject
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46513
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46513
- Release Date
- August 5, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.BEGINNINGS OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
- 4.THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST — I. THE PATHWAY OF THE WATERS — II. AGAINST THE WATERS — III. ACROSS THE WATERS.
- 5.THE PONY EXPRESS
- 6.EARLY WESTERN STEAMBOATING
- 7.GEORGE ROGERS CLARK AND THE CONQUEST OF THE NORTHWEST
- 8.BOONE'S WILDERNESS ROAD
- 9.DANIEL BOONE AND THE FOUNDING OF KENTUCKY
- 10.PIONEER FARMING
- 11.KENTUCKY PIONEER LIFE
- 12.A PIONEER BOYHOOD
- 13."THE PLAINS ACROSS"
- 14.THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA
- 15.RÉSUMÉ OF FRÉMONT'S EXPEDITIONS
- 16.ROUGH TIMES IN ROUGH PLACES A PERSONAL NARRATIVE
- 17.KIT CARSON, LAST OF THE TRAIL-MAKERS
- 18.THE MACMONNIES PIONEER MONUMENT FOR DENVER
- 19.THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA
- 20.PIONEER MINING
- 21.THE GREAT NORTHWEST IN THE EARLY EIGHTIES
- 22.THE GREAT SOUTHWEST
- 23.THE DESERT
- 24.INDEX
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