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This anthology is from our Primary Sources in American History series, designed to make primary sources widely available in an inexpensive format that encourages analytical thinking. The letters, diary excerpts, speeches, interviews and newspaper articles in Reading the American West let students experience what historians really do and how history is written. Every document is accompanied by a contextual headnote and study questions, and each chapter includes extensive introductions.

Table of Contents:
1. The Intellectual West. The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893). (Frederick Jackson Turner, The Frontier in American History and the Eleventh Census, 1890). The West of Walter Prescott Webb (1931). The New Western History (1988). 2. A Collision of Worlds. A Zuni Creation Legend. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, "Indians of the Rio Grande" (1528). The Report of Thomas Harriot (1590). The Micmacs Describe the French Empire (1677). The Pueblo Revolt (1680). Creek Origins (1735). Father Serra Reports on Mission Labor (1772). A Mohegan Plea for Survival (1789). The Religion of the Sioux (1844). 3. Acquiring a Continental Empire. The Treaty of Paris (1783). The Land Ordinance of 1785 (1785). The Northwest Ordinance (1787). The Louisiana Purchase (1803). Opposition to the Louisiana Purchase (1803). The Acquisition of Florida (1819). Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress(1829). Men of the Alamo (1836). The Annexation of Texas (1845). 4. Exploring the New Empire. Lewis' Initial Report to the President (1806). Ben York (1804). Sacagawea (1805). The Santa Fe Trail (1821). Jedediah Smith and the Fur Trade (1827). Rendezvous and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade (1825). A Buffalo Hunt (1832). Audubon's Western Journey (1843). Fremont's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1846). Comanches and the Marcy Expedition (1854). 5. Life in the Antebellum West. The Forty-Niners (1849). Cholera and the Overland Trail (1850). Slavery in the Territories (1850). The Compromise of 1850 (1850). People v. George W. Hall (1854). An Ex-Slave in the Oregon Territory (1853). Slave Women in the West (1850). Texas Slave Insurrection (1860). Zhang Deyi in Oakland California (1868). 6. Westward Expansion: Ideology. The Preemption Act (1841). John L. O'Sullivan, "The Great Nation of Futurity" (1845). The Mexican War (1846). The Oregon Treaty (1846). The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). The Gadsen Purchase (1853). Proposal for a Railroad through the New Mexico Territory (1853). The Mormons (1862). The Homestead Act (1862). The First Transcontinental Railroad (1869). Homesteading and Preemption in Oregon (1880). Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). 7. Conflict in the West. Vigilantes (1851). Hanging of Thirty-Eight Indians (1862). The Sioux Uprising in Minnesota (1862). The Sand Creek Massacre (1864). A Frontier Fight (1868). An Anti-Chinese Riot in Los Angeles (1871). Apache Campaign (1872). Custer's Last Battle (1876). The Rock Springs Massacre (1885). The Surrender of Geronimo (1886). A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers (1889). The Death of Sitting Bull (1890). Wounded Knee (1890). Johnson County Range War (1892). 8. Post-Civil War Life in the West. The Overland Stage to California (1865). The Chisholm Trail (1869). Domestic Life with the Seventh Cavalry (1876). The Chinese (1882). The Bucolic Dialect of the Plains (1887). Building a Sod House (1888). Women on the Frontier (1871, 1890). Isabella Bird's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1882). Texas Types and Contrasts (1890). The Mexicans (1890). Cowboy Vernacular (1895). Homesteaders (1910). 9. Promoting the West: Western Icons. Daniel Boone (1814). Pony Express Rider (1861). Wild Bill Hickok (1869). Billy the Kid (1878). Interview with Sitting Bull (1881). Teddy Roosevelt, Cowboy (1884). The American Cowboy Today (1886). The Death of Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen (1889). Real Cowboys (1890). Texas Rangers (1896). The Virginian (1904). Nat Love, Alias Deadwood Dick (1907). 10. New Western Politics. Walt Whitman's View of the Spanish Element (1883). The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892). William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold Speech (1896). Carry Nation (1889). Woman Suffrage, Wyoming (1889). Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded (1901). The Chinese and the Exclusion Act (1901). Harry Orchard, Labor Union Assassin (1905). Bouley: A Negro Town in the West (1905). The Japanese in California (1920). 11. Settlement and Environmental Change. Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (1823). Placer Mining (1859). The Federal Mining Act of 1872) (1872). Hydraulic Mining (1873). Timber Act (1873, 1874). Timber and Stone Act (1878). John Wesley Powell Reports on the Arid West (1879). Shooting Prairie Dogs (1901). The Disappearance of the Buffalo (1892, 1893). Irrigation and the Carey Act of 1894 (1896). Reclamation Act (1902). Report of the Reclamation Service (1906). Last Stand of the Redwoods (1915). 12. The West in Transition. Tombstone (1883). Yellowstone National Park (1894, 1896). Railroads: The "Soul-less Corporation" (1900). Report from the Governor of Arizona (1905). Brownsville Court Martial (1906). Geronimo at the World's Fair (1904). The Indian Population of the United States (1910). Japanese and Italian Truck Gardeners in Sacramento California (1911). General Pershing's Mexican Campaign (1916). Is There a West? (1920). Mormons and Salt Lake City (1922). Pearl Chase and Indian Housing (1928). The Meriam Report (1928). Georgia O'Keeffe's Taos (1930). 13. The New Deal West. Indian Reorganization Act (1934). John Collier Defends the Indian Reorganization Act (1934). Taylor Grazing Act (1934). The Dust Bowl (1934). Down and Out in the Great Depression (1935). Edwards v. California (1941). The Zoot Suit Riots (1943). Japanese American and Aleutian Wartime Relocation (1942). Japanese Relocation Order (1942). Japanese Relocation and National Security (1945). 14. The Post War West: New Realities. The Children of Los Alamos (1947). Hollywood Meets the Atomic Bomb (1954). Air Conditioning in the Southwest (1950). The Texas Rangers (1968). Bulloch v. U.S. (1956). Watts Riot (1965). I.N. Clifton et al v. Abdon Salazar Puente (1969). Barry Goldwater and Indian Education (1969). Pesticides and the Farm Worker (1969). A Comanche Migrant Worker (1969). Caesar Chavez to the United Farm Workers of America (1979). Red Power (1969). Alcatraz (1970). Cabazon Band of Mission Indians v. California (1981). Employment Division v. Smith (1990). Mining Law Reform Act (1991). Grazing and Public Lands (1994). The Duke (1995)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780321044099
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 19
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Primary Sources in American History
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0321044096
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 0003-
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr

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