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