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Index
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT 1832-1889
Acknowledgments
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
The Land and the People
Frémont Crosses the Sierras
Colonel John Frémont Describes His Expedition
The Desert Barrier
Sarah Royce Crosses the Desert
A Tour on the Prairies
Henry Ellsworth Accompanies Washington Irving Across the Plains
The Indians
Henry Ellsworth Accompanies Washington Irving Across the Plains
The Trappers
Isaac Jones Wistar Endures a Hard Winter
The Emigrants
Francis Parkman Encounters a Wagon Train
The Conquest
To California by Sea
Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Visits the Coast of California
A Day with the Cow Column
Jesse Applegate Herds Cattle on the Oregon Trail
The Donner Party Starves
Virginia Reed Murphy Survives a Terrible Ordeal
Mark Twain Rides the Overland Stage
A Memorable Account of Stagecoach Travel from Roughing It
The Coming of the Railroad
Walt Whitman Writes of the Continental Railroad
Samuel Bowles Travels on the Union Pacific
The Mining Frontier
The Discovery of Gold
Walter Colton Describes the Effect of the Discovery
Eldorado
Mark Twain Doesn’t Strike It Rich
The Ranching Frontier
The Long Drive
Andy Adams Encounters Rustlers
The Farming Frontier
Homesteading in the Dakotas
O. E. Rölvaag Pictures the Norwegian Settlers
The Land Rush in Oklahoma
Hamilton Wicks Races to Guthrie
Transcriber’s Notes
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