American West (1836-1900)
Series: Defining documents in American history
Publisher: Salem Press/EBSCO
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781619255333
Copyright date: 2014
Table of contents: title: Publisher's note; title: Editor's introduction; title: Contributors; title: Maps; title: Shifting borders.; title: On Texas independence; title: A foreigner in my own land; title: Mexican denunciations of the United States; title: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; title: On seizing land from native Californians; title: Walt Whitman : The Spanish element in our nationality; title: Westward movement.; title: The Fremont Expedition across the Sierra Nevada Range; title: Across the Plains in 1844; title: Donner Party diary; title: The discovery of gold in California; title: A woman's trip across the Plains; title: Observations regarding the transcontinental railroad; title: The rush to Oklahoma; title: Mormon disavowal of plural marriage; title: Indian wars and woes.; title: Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre; title: Status report on the condition of the Navajos; title: Trouble on the Paiute reservation; title: Treaty of Fort Laramie; title: Accounts of the Battle of Little Bighorn; title: Speech by Chief Joseph on a visit to Washington, DC; title: President Chester Arthur : Indian policy reform; title: The surrender of Geronimo; title: Dawes Act; title: Wovoka : The messiah letter; title: The ghost dance among the Lakota; title: Eyewitness to the massacre at Wounded Knee; title: Lakota accounts of the massacre at Wounded Knee; title: Asian American affairs.; title: A Chinese American protest; title: People v. Hall; title: Chinese Exclusion Act; title: Cowboys and outlaws.; title: On being a Pony Express rider; title: Jesse James in his own defense; title: On Billy the Kid; title: Shootout at the O.K. Corral; title: Theodore Roosevelt in cowboy-land; title: A scout with the Buffalo Soldiers; title: Environmental actions.; title: The Alaska Purchase; title: From Canyons of the Colorado; title: The establishment of Yellowstone National Park; title: The extermination of the American bison; title: Features of the proposed Yosemite National Park; title: Letters to John Muir; title: Beyond the West.; title: Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; title: The significance of the frontier in American history; title: The march of the flag; title: Appendixes.; title: Chronological list; title: Web resources; title: Bibliography