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Defining Documents in American History: The American West (1836–1900)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Maps




Shifting Borders




On Texas Independence




A Foreigner in My Own Land




Mexican Denunciations of the United States




The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo




On Seizing Land from Native Californians




Walt Whitman: The Spanish Element in Our Nationality




Westward Movement




The Fremont Expedition Across the Sierra Nevada Range




Across the Plains in 1844




Donner Party Diary




The Discovery of Gold in California




A Woman's Trip Across the Plains




Observations Regarding the Transcontinental Railroad




The Rush to Oklahoma




Mormon Disavowal of Plural Marriage




Indian Wars and Woes




Accounts of the Sand Creek Massacre




Status Report on the Condition of the Navajos




Trouble on the Paiute Reservation




Treaty of Fort Laramie




Accounts of the Battle of Little Bighorn




Speech by Chief Joseph on a Visit to Washington, DC




President Chester Arthur: Indian Policy Reform




The Surrender of Geronimo




Dawes Act




Wovoka: The Messiah Letter




The Ghost Dance Among the Lakota




Eyewitness to the Massacre at Wounded Knee




Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee




Asian American Affairs




A Chinese American Protest




People v. Hall




Chinese Exclusion Act




Cowboys and Outlaws




On Being a Pony Express Rider




Jesse James in His Own Defense




On Billy the Kid




Shootout at the O.K. Corral




Theodore Roosevelt in Cowboy-Land




A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers




Environmental Actions




The Alaska Purchase




From Canyons of the Colorado




The Establishment of Yellowstone National Park




The Extermination of the American Bison




Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park




Letters to John Muir




Beyond the West




Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show




The Significance of the Frontier in American History




The March of the Flag




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography