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American West (1836-1900) /
"Defining Documents in American History: The American West offers a broad range of historical documents on important figures and topics in American West research. Written by historians and experts in the field, this resource examines a wide array of primary source documents with an in-depth cri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Grey House Publishing,
2014.
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| Edición: | [First edition]. |
| Colección: | Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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 ; Index.