The Westward Movement 1832-1889
by Richard B. Morris
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Woodress, James Leslie, 1916-2011
- Credits
- Produced by Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F590.3: United States local history: The West. Trans-Mississippi Region. Great Plains
- Subject
- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60855
- Release Date
- December 6, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT 1832-1889 — Acknowledgments
- 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 3.Preface
- 4.The Land and the People
- 5.Frémont Crosses the Sierras — Colonel John Frémont Describes His Expedition
- 6.The Desert Barrier — Sarah Royce Crosses the Desert
- 7.A Tour on the Prairies — Henry Ellsworth Accompanies Washington Irving Across the Plains
- 8.The Indians — Henry Ellsworth Accompanies Washington Irving Across the Plains
- 9.The Trappers — Isaac Jones Wistar Endures a Hard Winter
- 10.The Emigrants — Francis Parkman Encounters a Wagon Train
- 11.The Conquest
- 12.To California by Sea — Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Visits the Coast of California
- 13.A Day with the Cow Column — Jesse Applegate Herds Cattle on the Oregon Trail
- 14.The Donner Party Starves — Virginia Reed Murphy Survives a Terrible Ordeal
- 15.Mark Twain Rides the Overland Stage — A Memorable Account of Stagecoach Travel from Roughing It
- 16.The Coming of the Railroad — Walt Whitman Writes of the Continental Railroad — Samuel Bowles Travels on the Union Pacific
- 17.The Mining Frontier
- 18.The Discovery of Gold — Walter Colton Describes the Effect of the Discovery — Eldorado — Mark Twain Doesn’t Strike It Rich
- 19.The Ranching Frontier
- 20.The Long Drive — Andy Adams Encounters Rustlers
- 21.The Farming Frontier
- 22.Homesteading in the Dakotas — O. E. Rölvaag Pictures the Norwegian Settlers
- 23.The Land Rush in Oklahoma — Hamilton Wicks Races to Guthrie
- 24.Transcriber’s Notes
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