The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883
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This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done by the three great rival powers of modern times in civilizing our continent. I have tried to make it the worthy, if modest, exponent of a great theme. The story grows to absorbing interest, as the great achievement of the age." Three Rival CivilizationsThe SpaniardsAn Historic EraDe Soto's Discovery of...
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- THE MAKING OF THE GREAT WEST 1512-1883
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- Group I. THREE RIVAL CIVILIZATIONS.
- I. THE SPANIARDS.
- AN HISTORIC ERA.
- DE SOTO'S DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.[1]
- DEATH AND BURIAL OF DE SOTO.
- THE INDIANS OF FLORIDA.
- HOW NEW MEXICO CAME TO BE EXPLORED.
- "THE MARVELLOUS COUNTRY."
- FOLK LORE OF THE PUEBLOS.
- LAST DAYS OF CHARLES V. AND PHILIP II.
- SWORD AND GOWN IN CALIFORNIA.
- II. THE FRENCH.
- PRELUDE.
- WESTWARD BY THE GREAT INLAND WATERWAYS.
- THE SITUATION IN A.D. 1672.
- COUNT FRONTENAC.
- JOLIET AND MARQUETTE.
- THE MAN LA SALLE.
- LA SALLE, PRINCE OF EXPLORERS.
- DISCOVERY OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI.
- THE LOST COLONY: ST. LOUIS OF TEXAS.
- IBERVILLE FOUNDS LOUISIANA.
- FRANCE WINS THE PRIZE.
- LOUIS XIV.
- III. THE ENGLISH.
- THE BLEAK NORTH-WEST COAST.
- HUDSON'S BAY TO THE SOUTH SEA.
- THE RUSSIANS IN ALASKA.
- ENGLAND ON THE PACIFIC.
- QUEEN ELIZABETH.
- INTERLUDE.—WHAT JONATHAN CARVER AIMED TO DO IN 1766.
- JOHN LEDYARD'S IDEA.
- A YANKEE SHIP DISCOVERS THE COLUMBIA RIVER.
- THE WEST AT THE OPENING OF THE CENTURY.
- Group II. BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN IDEA.
- I. AMERICA FOR AMERICANS.
- ACQUISITION OF LOUISIANA.
- A GLANCE AT OUR PURCHASE.
- II. THE PATHFINDERS.
- LEWIS AND CLARKE ASCEND THE MISSOURI.
- THEY CROSS THE CONTINENT.
- PIKE EXPLORES THE ARKANSAS VALLEY. PIKE'S PEAK A LANDMARK.
- NEW MEXICO IN 1807.
- GOLD IN COLORADO. A Trapper's Story.
- THE FLAG IN OREGON.
- LOUISIANA ADMITTED.
- III. THE OREGON TRAIL.
- THE TRAPPER, THE BACKWOODSMAN, AND THE EMIGRANT.
- LONG EXPLORES THE PLATTE VALLEY.
- MISSOURI, AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1821.
- ARKANSAS ADMITTED 1836.
- THOMAS H. BENTON'S IDEA. "There is the East! There lies the road to India."
- WITH THE VANGUARD TO OREGON. "This army does not retreat!"
- TEXAS ADMITTED.
- INTERLUDE.—NEW POLITICAL IDEAS.
- IOWA ADMITTED.
- THE WAR WITH MEXICO. "You can do any thing with a bayonet but sit on it."
- CONQUEST OF NEW MEXICO.
- THE TAKING OF CALIFORNIA.
- THE MORMONS IN UTAH.
- Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.
- I. THE GREAT EMIGRATION.
- EL DORADO FOUND AT LAST. "It is always the unexpected that happens."
- SWARMING THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE.[1]
- THE CALIFORNIA PIONEERS.
- CALIFORNIA A FREE STATE.
- ARIZONA.
- II. THE CONTEST FOR FREE SOIL.
- THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA STRUGGLE.
- KANSAS THE BATTLE-GROUND.
- THE BATTLE FOUGHT AND WON.
- TWO FREE STATES ADMITTED.
- III. THE CROWN OF THE CONTINENT.
- GOLD IN COLORADO, AND THE RUSH THERE.
- THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. In time of war prepare for peace.
- KANSAS, NEVADA, NEBRASKA AND COLORADO ADMITTED.
- THE RECENT STATES.
- THE WORK OF EIGHTY YEARS.
- INDEX.
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