The opening of the West
By: Rebecca Stefoff.
Series: American voices from--
Publisher: Benchmark Books/M. Cavendish
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Subjects: Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.; Pioneers -- West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.; Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.); West (U.S.) -- History -- Juvenile literature.; West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.; United States -- Territorial expansion -- Juvenile literature.; West (U.S.) -- History.; West (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.; United States -- Territorial expansion.
Genres: Juvenile literature.; Sources; Sources.
Description: Presents the history of the westward expansion of the United States in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through excerpts from letters, newspaper articles, journal entries, and laws of the time.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 102) and index.
Table of contents: title: The frontier; title: The explorers; title: Mountain men and miners; title: The overland trails; title: Women and children in the West; title: Living and working on the land; title: Building the new West; title: The fate of the Native Americans.