The Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion: A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
The Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion: A Student's Guide to Essential Primary Sources
Editor: Seman, Jennifer Koshatka
Publication Year: 2022
Publisher: Schlager Group Inc.
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-93-530660-3
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
71
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion offers an accessible, inclusive sourcebook covering a pivotal era in U.S. history.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- Reader's Guide
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: “The destinies of nations and of men”: Conquering the West
- John Winthrop: “A Model of Christian Charity”
- Saukamappee: “Death Came Over Us All”
- Jedidiah Morse: The American Geography
- Western Confederacy: Message to the Commissioners of the United States
- Thomas Jefferson: Second Inaugural Address
- Tecumseh: Address to General William Henry Harrison at Vincennes, Indiana Territory
- Tecumseh: Speech to the Osage
- Cherokee Women Address Their Nation
- Manuel de Mier y Terán: Letter to the Pueblo Viejo Minister of War
- Benjamin Lundy: “Conditions for African Americans in Mexican Texas”
- Andrew Jackson: “To the Cherokee Tribe of Indians”
- Antonio López de Santa Anna: Message to the Inhabitants of Texas
- Stephen F. Austin: Address in Louisville, Kentucky, March 7, 1836
- Juan Nepomuceno Seguín: A Tejano Leader Calls for Support of the Texas Revolution
- John Ross: Letter to Congress
- Juan Nepomuceno Seguín: Personal Memoirs of John N. Seguín
- James K. Polk: Inaugural Address
- Frederick Douglass: “The War with Mexico”
- Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- U.S. General Land Office Map of the United States
- Oregon Exclusion Law
- The Other Side; or, Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States
- Chapter 2: “From hill to hill and from valley to valley”: Remaking the West
- Joseph Blaney Starkweather: “African Americans Working at Spanish Flat, California Gold Mine”
- “Song of Gold Mountain”
- Mason v. Smith
- Pun Chi: A Chinese Merchant Petitions Congress to Address Anti-Chinese Abuse
- Homestead Act
- Joseph Cramer: Letter to Major Ed Wynkoop about the Sand Creek Massacre
- “George Bent and Magpie”
- Frederick Douglass: “Our Composite Nationality”
- John Gast: American Progress
- “Exodusters: African American Homesteaders”
- “Ho for Kansas” Exoduster Flyer
- Chief Joseph: “An Indian's View of Indian Affairs”
- John Nicholas Choate: “Before and After”
- Thomas Nast: “Every Dog (No Distinction of His Color) Has His Day”
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes
- Charles Siringo: A Texas Cow Boy
- Ely Parker: Letter to Harriet Maxwell Converse about Indian Policy Reform
- “The Chrisman Sisters Outside Their Nebraska Sod House in 1886”
- Dawes Severalty Act
- John Muir: “The Treasures of the Yosemite”
- “The National Boundary Line at Nogales”
- William T. Selwyn and Kuwapi: “It Is the New Messiah”
- Wounded Knee Massacre: Statements and Eyewitness Accounts
- Richard H. Pratt: “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man”
- Frederick Jackson Turner: “The Significance of the Frontier in American History”
- Two Moons: A Cheyenne Description of the Battle of the Little Bighorn River
- Kimiko Ono: “Working in the Fields and the Home”
- John Muir: “The American Forests”
- Charles Eastman: Indian Boyhood.
- American Antiquities Act
- Little Bear: Account of the Sand Creek Massacre
- “Los Padrinos en los Funerales de Don Pedrito”
- Elinore Pruitt Stewart: Letters of a Woman Homesteader
- “Indian Land for Sale” Poster
- Chapter 3: “Invasion of progress…progress of invasion”: Extending Conquest Overseas
- Grover Cleveland: Message to Congress on Hawaiian Sovereignty
- William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
- William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
- Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War
- Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
- Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League
- William McKinley: Home Market Club Speech
- William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church
- Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands
- Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
- William McKinley: Last Speech
- José María Vargas Vila: Facing the Barbarians
- Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
- Chapter 4: “Do not get lost on this new trail”: Remembering and Representing the West
- Ulysses S. Grant: Memoir on the Mexican War
- Sacagawea Monument, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon
- “Death of Custer”
- Charles Eastman: From the Deep Woods to Civilization
- Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair”
- Luther Standing Bear: “The Plains Were Covered with Dead Bison”
- Nicholas Black Elk: “The Butchering at Wounded Knee”
- List of Documents by Category