VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
1832-1889
- Edited by
- Richard B. Morris
- Gouverneur Morris Professor of History
- Columbia University
- New York, New York
- James Woodress
- Chairman, Department of English
- San Fernando Valley State College
- Northridge, California
WEBSTER PUBLISHING COMPANY
ST. LOUIS ATLANTA DALLAS
- VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST
- The Beginnings of America 1607-1763
- The Times That Tried Men’s Souls 1770-1783
- The Age of Washington 1783-1801
- The Jeffersonians 1801-1829
- Jacksonian Democracy 1829-1848
- The Westward Movement 1832-1889
- The House Divided: The Civil War 1850-1865
- (Other titles in preparation)
Acknowledgments
Pages 5-8. From Sarah Royce, A Frontier Lady. Reprinted by permissionof Yale University Press.
Pages 8-11. From Henry Ellsworth, Washington Irving on the Prairie,edited by Williams and Simison, reprinted by permission of AmericanBook Company.
Pages 14-16. From the Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, reprintedby permission of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
Pages 51-55. From Giants in the Earth, by O. E. Rölvaag. Copyright1927 by Harper and Brothers. Reprinted by permission of Harper andBrothers.
- Copyright ©, 1961, by Webster Publishing Company
- Printed in the United States of America
- All rights reserved
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface v
- I The Land and the People
- Frémont Crosses the Sierras 1
- Colonel John Frémont Describes His Expedition 1
- The Desert Barrier 5
- Sarah Royce Crosses the Desert 5
- A Tour on the Prairies 8
- Henry Ellsworth Accompanies Washington Irving Across the Plains 8
- The Indians 11
- Francis Parkman Describes the Dahcotahs 11
- The Trappers 13
- Isaac Jones Wistar Endures a Hard Winter 13
- The Emigrants 16
- Francis Parkman Encounters a Wagon Train 16
- II The Conquest
- To Californ ...
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