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The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier
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Description: This authoritative illustrated encyclopedia presents a complete history of America's frontier movement, from the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown in 1607, expeditions across the Appalachian Mountains, the opening of the Northwest Territory, exploration of the Mississippi River, homesteading on the Great Plains, gold and silver mining in the West, and the Indian Wars to the settlement of the Pacific Coast and the official closing of the American frontier in 1890. Nearly 500 in-depth signed articles cover personalities and peoples, places, events, institutions, movements, and many other topics on the expanding frontier.
The Settlement of America enables students to consider multiple viewpoints (Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, settlers, immigrants, women, politicians, and businessmen); appreciate diverse historical perspectives; understand historical continuity and change, and recognize how the movement westward forever changed the national character.
Selected Contents:
Topic Finder
Contributors
Introduction
Maps
Essays
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier
Indians
The Fur Trade
Overland Trails
The Military Establishment
Gold Rushes
Railroads
Arts and Letters
A-Z Entries
Abert, James William; Adams, John Quincy; Adams-Onfs Treaty (1819); Adobe Walls, Battles of; Alamance, Battle of; Alamo, The; Alaska Purchase (1867); Allison Commission; American Fur Company; American Horse; Apache; Arapaho; Arikara; Arikara War; Armijo, Manuel; Army of the West; Ashley, William Henry; Astor, John Jacob; Astoria; Atkinson, Henry; Attacullaculla; Audubon, John James; Austin, Moses; Austin, Stephen F.
Baker, James; Barbed Wire; Bartlett, John Russell; Beale Wagon Road; Bear Flag Revolt; Beaver; Becknell, William; Beckwourth, James P.; Bent, St. Vrain & Company; Bent Brothers; Benton, Thomas Hart; Bent's Fort; Bidwell, John; Billings, Frederick; Bison, American; Black Hawk; Black Hawk War (1832); Black Hills Expeditions; Black Kettle; Blackfoot; Blue Water Creek, Battle of; Bodmer, Karl; Bonneville, Benjamin Louis; Boone, Daniel; Boonesborough, Kentucky; Boudinot, Elias; Boundary Commissions; Bowie, James; Bozeman, John; Bozeman Trail; Bridger, Jim; Bridger Trail; Buffalo Soldiers; Burnet, David G.; Burnett, Peter Hardeman; Burr, Aaron; Butterfield Stage
California, Conquest of; Calhoun, John C.; California Trail; Campbell, Robert; Carlisle Indian Industrial School; Carrington Family; Carson, Kit; Cashman, Nellie; Catlin, George; Cattle Brands; Cattle Frontier; Central Pacific Railroad; Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste; Charbonneau, Toussaint; Cherokee; Cherokee Trail; Cherokee Wars; Cheyenne; Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail; Chickasaw; Chief Joseph; Chinese Immigration; Chisholm Trail; Chivington, John M.; Choctaw; Chouteau Family; Chuck Wagons; Clark, William; Clay, Henry; Clyman, James; Cochise (Cheis); Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill); Colter, John; Comanche; Compromise of 1850; Conestoga Wagon; Cooke, Jay; Cooke, Philip St. George; Cordoba, Treaty of (1821); Corps of Topographical Engineers; Cox, Ross; Crazy Horse; Creek ; Creek Wars; Crockett, Davy; Crook, George; Crooks, Ramsay; Crow; Cumberland Gap; Custer, Elizabeth Bacon; Custer, George Armstrong; Custer Expedition
Davis, Jefferson; Dawes, Henry L.; Dawes Severalty Act (1887); De Smet, Pierre-Jean; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad; Disease; Doak's Stand, Treaty of (1820); Dodge, Henry; Donation Land Claim Act (1850); Doniphan, Alexander William; Donner Party; Douglas, Stephen A.; Drouillard, George; Dull Knife; Dunbar-Hunter and Freeman-Custis Expeditions; Duniway, Abigail Scott
Eastman, Seth, and Mary Eastman; Elections, Presidential; Emigration Societies; Emory, William Hemsley; Empresario System; End-of-Tracks Towns
Factory System; Fallen Timbers, Battle of; Fannin, James Walker; Filibusters; Fitzpatrick, Thomas "Broken Hand"; Flathead; Fontenelle, Lucien; Forks of the Ohio; Fort Benton; Fort Bridger; Fort Clatsop; Fort Dilts; Fort Hall; Fort Jackson, Treaty of (1814); Fort Kearny (Nebraska); Fort Laramie, Treaty of (1868); Fort Laramie; Fort Leavenworth; Fort Mandan; Fort Osage; Fort Phil Kearny; Fort Robinson; Fort Snelling; Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1768); Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1784); Fort Union (New Mexico); Fort Union (North Dakota); Fort Vancouver; Fort Wise, Treaty of (1861); Forts and Fortification; Forty-Niners; Fraser, Simon; Fredonian Rebellion; FrTmont, John Charles, and Jessie Benton FrTmont; Frontier Theory
Gadsden Purchase (1853); Gall; Garrard, Hector Lewis; Gass, Patrick; Geronimo; Ghost Dance; Glass, Hugh; Glenn-Fowler Expedition; Glidden, Joseph; Goliad, Battle of; "Gone to Texas"; Goodnight, Charles; Goodnight-Loving Trail; Graduation Act (1854); Grant, Ulysses S.; Grattan Massacre; Gray, Robert; Great American Desert; Greeley, Horace; Green River ; Greenville, Treaty of (1795); Gregg, Josiah; Grinnell, George Bird; Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848) ; Gwin, William McKendree
Harney, William S.; Harrison, William Henry; Hayden, Ferdinand; Hayden Survey; Heap, Gwinn Harris; Henry, Andrew; Hidatsa; Hide Hunters; Holladay, Ben; Holmes, William Henry; Homestead Act (1862); Hopewell, Treaty of (1785); Hopi; Horse Creek Treaty (1851); Houston, Sam; Howard, Oliver O.; Hudson's Bay Company; Hunt, Wilson Price
Independence, Missouri; Indian Captivity; Indian Policy; Indian Removal Act (1830)
Jackson, Andrew; Jackson, David E.; Jackson, William Henry; Jackson's Indian Policy; Jefferson, Thomas; Jefferson Barracks; Johnson County War; Johnston, Albert Sidney; Jones, Thomas ap Catesby; Judah, Theodore D.; Judah Survey
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854); Kearny, Stephen Watts; Keil, William; Kern Brothers; King, Clarence; Kiowa
LaclFde Liguest, Pierre de ; Lakota; Lamar, Mirabeau B.; Land Speculation Companies; Lander, Frederick W.; Lander Cutoff; Larkin, Thomas Oliver; Leavenworth, Henry; Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express; Leonard, Zenas; Lewis, Meriwether; Lewis and Clark Expedition; Lisa, Manuel; Little Turtle; Long, Stephen H.; Long Expedition; Long Hunters; Long Walk; Louisiana Purchase (1803); Louisiana Territory; Loving, Oliver; Lozen
MacKenzie, Donald; Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell; Magoffin, James Wiley; Mandan; Mangas Coloradas; Manifest Destiny; Manypenny, George W.; Marcy, Randolph Barnes; Martfnez, Antonio JosT; Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philip; Maxwell Land Grant Company; McKenney, Thomas L.; McKenzie, Kenneth; McLoughlin, John; Mears, Otto; Medicine Lodge Creek, Treaty of (1867); Meek, Joseph L.; Meeker Massacre; Meeker, Nathan; Mercer, Asa; Mexican Boundary Survey; Mexican Land Grants; Mexican-American War; Mier Expedition; Miles, Nelson A.; Miller, Alfred Jacob; Mining Industry; Missouri Compromise (1820); Missouri Fur Company; Monroe, James; Moran, Thomas; Mormon Battalion; Mormon Church; Mormon Trail; Morris, Esther Hobart; Mountain Meadows Massacre; Mullan, John; Mullan Road
Nashville; Natchez Trace; Navajo; New Echota, Treaty of (1835); Nez Perce; Nicolett, Joseph Nicolas; North, Frank Joshua; North, Luther Hedden; North West Company; Northern Pacific Railroad
Oatman Girls' Captivity; O'Fallon, Benjamin; Ogden, Peter Skene; Omaha; Open Range; Ordway, John; Oregon Question; Oregon Trail; Osage; O'Sullivan, John L.; Ouray; Overland Mail; Overland Telegraph Company; Overland Trail
Pacific Railway Act (1862); Pacific Railway Act (1864); Panic of 1873; Paris, Treaty of (1763); Parker, Cynthia Ann; Parker, Quanah; Parker, Samuel; Pattie, James Ohio; Pawnee; Pawnee Scouts; Perpetual Emigrating Fund; Picotte, Susan La Flesche; Pierre's Hole, Battle of; Pike, Zebulon M.; Pike Expedition; Pilcher, Joshua; Point Pleasant, Battle of; Polk, James Knox; Pontiac; Pony Express; Powder River Expedition (1865); Powder River Expedition (1876); Powell, John Wesley; Prairie du Chien, Treaties of (1825, 1829, 1830); Prairie Schooner; Preemption Act (1841); Preuss, Charles; Price, Sterling; Proclamation of 1763; Provost, +tienne ; Pueblo
Railroad Land Grants; Railroad Surveys, Transcontinental; Red Bird; Red Cloud; Red Cloud's War; Rendezvous; Riley, Bennet; Robidoux Family; Rocky Mountain Fur Company; Roman Nose; Ross, Alexander; Russell, Majors, and Waddell; Russell, Osborne; Ruxton, George A.F.
Sacagawea; San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800); San Jacinto, Battle of; San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795); Sand Creek Massacre; Santa Anna, Antonio L=pez de; Santa Fe Trail; Santee Sioux; Santee Sioux Uprising; Sappington, John; Sarpy, Peter A.; Satanta; Sauk; Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe; Scott, Winfield; Shawnee; Sheridan, Philip H.; Sherman, William Tecumseh; Shoshone; Simpson, George; Sioux; Sitting Bull; Sloat, John D.; Smith, Jackson and Sublette; Smith, Jedediah; Smith, Joseph; Smoky Hill Trail; South Pass; Spalding, Henry Harmon, and Eliza Hart Spalding; Spotted Tail; St. Clair, Arthur; St. Louis, Missouri; St. Vrain, Cerßn; Stansbury Expedition; Stevens Treaty (1855); Stockton, Robert Field; Stuart, Robert; Sublette Brothers; Summit Springs, Battle of; Sutter, John A.; Sutter's Fort
Table Rock Treaty (1853); Taos Revolt; Taylor, Zachary; Tecumseh; Territorial System; Texan Santa Fe Expedition; Texas Annexation; Texas Rangers; Texas Revolution and Independence; Texas Trail; Thames, Battle of the; Thief Treaty (1863); Thompson, David; Timber Culture Act (1873); Tools; Trail of Tears; Transportation, Land; Transportation, Water; Travis, William Barret; Tyler, John
Union Colony; United States Exploring Expedition; United States Geological Survey; Utah War; Ute; Ute Indian Treaties
Van Buren, Martin; Vasquez, Louis; Victorio; Vigilantism; Villard, Henry
Walker, Joseph R.; Wallace, William "Bigfoot"; War of 1812; Warren, Gouverneur Kemble; Washakie; Washita Engagement; Watauga Settlements; Watie, Stand; Watson, Ellen "Cattle Kate"; Wayne, Anthony; Wells, Fargo & Company; Wells, William; Western Trail; Westport and Westport Landing, Missouri; Whitman, Marcus, and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman; Whitney, Asa; Whoop-Up Trail; Wilkinson, James; Williams, William "Old Bill"; Winnemucca, Sarah; Wolfskill, William; Woman Suffrage; Wootton, Richens Lacy "Uncle Dick"; Wounded Knee; Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis
Yellowstone Surveying Expeditions; Young, Brigham; Young, Ewing; Yuma
Zuni
Chronology
Documents
Proclamation of 1763, King George III
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Interview with Daniel Boone (1797)
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific (1805)
Zebulon Pike's Journey Up the Mississippi River (1805-1806) and To the Far
How to Make a Beaver Hat (1807)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
On the Oregon Trail: A Firsthand Account (1834)
Letter From Narcissa Whitman on the Journey West (1836)
Bent's Fort, Colorado: Two Descriptions (1839, 1847)
Annexation of Texas (1845)
War with Mexico: Message from President James K. Polk to Congress (1846)
Oregon Treaty (1846)
U.S. Occupation of New Mexico: Speech by Stephen Watts Kearny (1846)
Firsthand Account of a Donner Party Survivor (1847)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1853)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Homestead Act (1862)
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Alaska Purchase Treaty (1867)
Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Treaty of Fort Laramie, Payoff Stipulations (1868)
Surviving the Elements on the Journey West: A Firsthand Account (1873-1874)
Black Migration: Congressional Testimony of Benjamin Singleton (1880)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Massacre at Wounded Knee: Sioux Account (1891)
Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
Fur Trade Rendezvous (1902)
Bibliography
Index
Review(s): "The cross-references following each entry will be useful to students with limited knowledge of the subject matter, as will the brief further-reading list for each topic. Illustrations and pictures appearing throughout enhance and highlight the entries to which they apply. This resource is recommended for high school students looking for a starting point for researching topics concerning a period in American history that is rife with activity, exploration, and discovery. While the encyclopedia discusses topics commonly studied from this period of history, it also details less-known events and individuals, helping to provide a more comprehensive view than standard materials on the subject." -- Library Journal
"The detail of westward movement from the South is excellent, and the bibliography is solid. Many current books on aspects of westward movement are available, and some of this information can be found online; however, this book brings it all together. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students; general readers." -- Choice
"The text is written in a reader-friendly, fact-based fashion and is enhanced with photos and illustrations. A chronology and a solid collection of primary documents round out the encyclopedia. ... It offers useful background information on both familiar and more obscure topics as well as providing leads to further research. As such it should be considered by public, high school and college libraries." -- Against the Grain
    
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