The Schlager Anthology of Westward Expansion offers an accessible, inclusive sourcebook covering a pivotal era in U.S. history.

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