Settlement of America

Editors: Crutchfield, James, Moulton, Candy and Del Bene, Terry A.
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge

Single-User Purchase Price: $158.00
Unlimited-User Purchase Price: $237.00
ISBN: 978-0-7656-1984-6
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count: 87
Book Status: Available
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The Settlement of America enables students to consider multiple viewpoints (Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, settlers, immigrants, women, politicians, and businessmen); appreciate diverse historical perspectives; understand historical continuity and change, and recognize how the movement westward forever changed the national character.

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Table of Contents

  • Introduction: Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier
  • A
  • Abert, James William
  • Adams, John Quincy
  • Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)
  • Adobe Walls, Battles of
  • Alamance, Battle of
  • Alamo, The
  • Alaska Purchase (1867)
  • Allison Commission
  • American Fur Company
  • American Horse
  • Apache
  • Arapaho
  • Arikara
  • Arikara War
  • Armijo, Manuel
  • Army of the West
  • Arts and Letters
  • Ashley, William Henry
  • Astor, John Jacob
  • Astoria
  • Atkinson, Henry
  • Attacullaculla
  • Audubon, John James
  • Austin, Moses
  • Austin, Stephen F.
  • B
  • Baker, James
  • Barbed Wire
  • Bartlett, John Russell
  • Beale Wagon Road
  • Bear Flag Revolt
  • Beaver
  • Becknell, William
  • Beckwourth, James P.
  • Bent, St. Vrain & Company
  • Bent Brothers
  • Benton, Thomas Hart
  • Bent's Fort
  • Bidwell, John
  • Billings, Frederick
  • Bison, American
  • Black Hawk
  • Black Hawk War (1832)
  • Black Hills Expeditions
  • Black Kettle
  • Blackfoot
  • Blue Water Creek, Battle of
  • Bodmer, Karl
  • Bonneville, Benjamin Louis
  • Boone, Daniel
  • Boonesborough, Kentucky
  • Boudinot, Elias
  • Boundary Commissions
  • Bowie, James
  • Bozeman, John
  • Bozeman Trail
  • Bridger, Jim
  • Bridger Trail
  • Buffalo Soldiers
  • Burnet, David G.
  • Burnett, Peter Hardeman
  • Burr, Aaron
  • Butterfield Stage
  • C
  • Calhoun, John C.
  • California, Conquest of
  • California Trail
  • Campbell, Robert
  • Carlisle Indian Industrial School
  • Carrington Family
  • Carson, Kit
  • Cashman, Nellie
  • Catlin, George
  • Cattle Brands
  • Cattle Frontier
  • Central Pacific Railroad
  • Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste
  • Charbonneau, Toussaint
  • Cherokee
  • Cherokee Trail
  • Cherokee Wars
  • Cheyenne
  • Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail
  • Chickasaw
  • Chinese Immigration
  • Chisholm Trail
  • Chivington, John M.
  • Choctaw
  • Chouteau Family
  • Chuck Wagons
  • Clark, William
  • Clay, Henry
  • Clyman, James
  • Cochise (Cheis)
  • Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill)
  • Colter, John
  • Comanche
  • Compromise of 1850
  • Conestoga Wagon
  • Cooke, Jay
  • Cooke, Philip St. George
  • Cordoba, Treaty of (1821)
  • Corps of Topographical Engineers
  • Cox, Ross
  • Crazy Horse
  • Creek
  • Creek Wars
  • Crockett, Davy
  • Crook, George
  • Crooks, Ramsay
  • Crow
  • Cumberland Gap
  • Custer, Elizabeth Bacon
  • Custer, George Armstrong
  • Custer Expedition
  • D
  • Davis, Jefferson
  • Dawes, Henry L.
  • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
  • De Smet, Pierre-Jean
  • Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
  • Disease
  • Doak's Stand, Treaty of (1820)
  • Dodge, Henry
  • Donation Land Claim Act (1850)
  • Doniphan, Alexander William
  • Donner Party
  • Douglas, Stephen A.
  • Drouillard, George
  • Dull Knife
  • Dunbar-Hunter and Freeman-Custis Expeditions
  • Duniway, Abigail Scott
  • E
  • Eastman, Seth, and Mary Eastman
  • Elections, Presidential
  • Emigration Societies
  • Emory, William H.
  • Empresario System
  • End-of-Track Towns
  • F
  • Factory System
  • Fallen Timbers, Battle of
  • Fannin, James Walker
  • Filibusters
  • Firearms
  • Fitzpatrick, Thomas “Broken Hand”
  • Flathead
  • Fontenelle, Lucien
  • Forks of the Ohio
  • Fort Benton
  • Fort Bridger
  • Fort Clatsop
  • Fort Dilts
  • Fort Hall
  • Fort Jackson, Treaty of (1814)
  • Fort Kearny (Nebraska)
  • Fort Laramie
  • Fort Laramie, Treaty of (1868)
  • Fort Leavenworth
  • Fort Mandan
  • Fort Osage
  • Fort Phil Kearny (Wyoming)
  • Fort Robinson
  • Fort Snelling
  • Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1768)
  • Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1784)
  • Fort Union (New Mexico)
  • Fort Union (North Dakota)
  • Fort Vancouver
  • Fort Wise, Treaty of (1861)
  • Forts and Fortification
  • Forty-Niners
  • Fraser, Simon
  • Fredonian Rebellion
  • Frémont, John C.
  • Frontier Theory
  • Fur Trade
  • G
  • Gadsden Purchase (1853)
  • Gall
  • Garrard, Hector Lewis
  • Gass, Patrick
  • Geronimo
  • Ghost Dance
  • Glass, Hugh
  • Glenn-Fowler Expedition
  • Glidden, Joseph
  • Gold Rushes
  • Goliad, Battle of
  • “Gone to Texas”
  • Goodnight, Charles
  • Goodnight-Loving Trail
  • Graduation Act (1854)
  • Grant, Ulysses S.
  • Grattan Massacre
  • Gray, Robert
  • Great American Desert
  • Greeley, Horace
  • Green River
  • Greenville, Treaty of (1795)
  • Gregg, Josiah
  • Grinnell, George Bird
  • Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848)
  • Gwin, William McKendree
  • H
  • Harney, William S.
  • Harrison, William Henry
  • Hayden, Ferdinand
  • Hayden Survey
  • Heap, Gwinn Harris
  • Henry, Andrew
  • Hidatsa
  • Hide Hunters
  • Holladay, Ben
  • Holmes, William Henry
  • Homestead Act (1862)
  • Hopewell, Treaty of (1785)
  • Hopi
  • Horse Creek Treaty (1851)
  • Houston, Sam
  • Howard, Oliver O.
  • Hudson's Bay Company
  • Hunt, Wilson Price
  • I
  • Independence, Missouri
  • Indian Captivity
  • Indian Policy
  • Indian Removal Act (1830)
  • Indians
  • J
  • Jackson, Andrew
  • Jackson, David E.
  • Jackson, William Henry
  • Jackson's Indian Policy
  • Jefferson, Thomas
  • Jefferson Barracks
  • Johnson County War
  • Johnston, Albert Sidney
  • Jones, Thomas ap Catesby
  • Joseph, Chief
  • Judah, Theodore D.
  • Judah Survey
  • K
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  • Kearny, Stephen Watts
  • Keil, William
  • Kern Brothers
  • King, Clarence
  • Kiowa
  • L
  • Laclède Liguest, Pierre de
  • Lakota
  • Lamar, Mirabeau B.
  • Land Speculation Companies
  • Lander, Frederick W.
  • Lander Cutoff
  • Larkin, Thomas Oliver
  • Leavenworth, Henry
  • Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express
  • Leonard, Zenas
  • Lewis, Meriwether
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition
  • Lisa, Manuel
  • Little Turtle
  • Long, Stephen H.
  • Long Expedition
  • Long Hunters
  • Long Walk
  • Louisiana Purchase (1803)
  • Louisiana Territory
  • Loving, Oliver
  • Lozen
  • M
  • MacKenzie, Donald
  • Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell
  • Magoffin, James Wiley
  • Mandan
  • Mangas Coloradas
  • Manifest Destiny
  • Manypenny, George W.
  • Marcy, Randolph Barnes
  • Martínez, Antonio José
  • Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philip
  • Maxwell Land Grant Company
  • McKenney, Thomas L.
  • McKenzie, Kenneth
  • McLoughlin, John
  • Mears, Otto
  • Medicine Lodge Creek, Treaty of (1867)
  • Meek, Joseph L.
  • Meeker, Nathan
  • Meeker Massacre
  • Mercer, Asa
  • Mexican Boundary Survey
  • Mexican Land Grants
  • Mexican-American War
  • Mier Expedition
  • Miles, Nelson A.
  • Military Establishment
  • Miller, Alfred Jacob
  • Mining Industry
  • Missouri Compromise (1820)
  • Missouri Fur Company
  • Monroe, James
  • Moran, Thomas
  • Mormon Battalion
  • Mormon Church
  • Mormon Trail
  • Morris, Esther Hobart
  • Mountain Meadows Massacre
  • Mullan, John
  • Mullan Road
  • N
  • Nashville
  • Natchez Trace
  • Navajo
  • New Echota, Treaty of (1835)
  • Nez Percé
  • Nicolett, Joseph Nicolas
  • North, Frank Joshua
  • North, Luther Hedden
  • North West Company
  • Northern Pacific Railroad
  • O
  • Oatman Girls’ Captivity
  • O'Fallon, Benjamin
  • Ogden, Peter Skene
  • Omaha
  • Open Range
  • Ordway, John
  • Oregon Question
  • Oregon Trail
  • Osage
  • O'Sullivan, John L.
  • Ouray
  • Overland Mail
  • Overland Telegraph Company
  • Overland Trail
  • Overland Trails
  • P
  • Pacific Railway Act (1862)
  • Pacific Railway Act (1864)
  • Panic of 1873
  • Paris, Treaty of (1763)
  • Parker, Cynthia Ann
  • Parker, Quanah
  • Pattie, James Ohio
  • Pawnee
  • Pawnee Scouts
  • Perpetual Emigrating Fund
  • Picotte, Susan La Flesche
  • Pierre's Hole, Battle of
  • Pike, Zebulon M.
  • Pike Expedition
  • Pilcher, Joshua
  • Point Pleasant, Battle of
  • Polk, James K.
  • Pontiac
  • Pony Express
  • Powder River Expedition (1865)
  • Powder River Expedition (1876)
  • Powell, John Wesley
  • Prairie du Chien, Treaties of (1825, 1829, 1830)
  • Prairie Schooner
  • Preemption Act (1841)
  • Preuss, Charles
  • Price, Sterling
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Provost, Étienne
  • Pueblo
  • R
  • Railroad Land Grants
  • Railroad Surveys, Transcontinental
  • Railroads
  • Red Bird
  • Red Cloud
  • Red Cloud's War
  • Rendezvous
  • Riley, Bennet
  • Robidoux Family
  • Rocky Mountain Fur Company
  • Roman Nose
  • Rose, Edward
  • Ross, Alexander
  • Russell, Majors, and Waddell
  • Russell, Osborne
  • Ruxton, George A.F.
  • S
  • Sacagawea
  • San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800)
  • San Jacinto, Battle of
  • San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795)
  • Sand Creek Massacre
  • Santa Anna, Antonio López de
  • Santa Fe Trail
  • Santee Sioux
  • Santee Sioux Uprising
  • Sappington, John
  • Sarpy, Peter A.
  • Satanta
  • Sauk
  • Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
  • Scott, Winfield
  • Shawnee
  • Sheridan, Philip H.
  • Sherman, William Tecumseh
  • Shoshone
  • Simpson, George
  • Sioux
  • Sitting Bull
  • Sloat, John D.
  • Smith, Jackson, & Sublette
  • Smith, Jedediah
  • Smith, Joseph
  • Smoky Hill Trail
  • South Pass
  • Spalding, Henry H., and Eliza Hart Spalding
  • Spotted Tail
  • St. Clair, Arthur
  • St. Louis, Missouri
  • St. Vrain, Cerán
  • Stansbury Expedition
  • Stevens Treaty (1855)
  • Stockton, Robert Field
  • Stuart, Robert
  • Sublette Brothers
  • Summit Springs, Battle of
  • Sutter, John A.
  • Sutter's Fort
  • T
  • Table Rock Treaty (1853)
  • Taos Revolt
  • Taylor, Zachary
  • Tecumseh
  • Territorial System
  • Texan Santa Fe Expedition
  • Texas Annexation
  • Texas Rangers
  • Texas Revolution and Independence
  • Texas Trail
  • Thames, Battle of the
  • Thief Treaty (1863)
  • Thompson, David
  • Timber Culture Act (1873)
  • Tools
  • Trail of Tears
  • Trans-Appalachian Frontier
  • Transportation, Land
  • Transportation, Water
  • Travis, William Barret
  • Tyler, John
  • U
  • Union Colony
  • United States Exploring Expedition
  • United States Geological Survey
  • Utah War
  • Ute
  • V
  • Van Buren, Martin
  • Vasquez, Louis
  • Victorio
  • Vigilantism
  • Villard, Henry
  • W
  • Walker, Joseph R.
  • Wallace, William “Bigfoot”
  • War of 1812
  • Warren, Gouverneur Kemble
  • Washakie
  • Washita Engagement
  • Watauga Settlements
  • Watie, Stand
  • Watson, Ellen “Cattle Kate”
  • Wayne, Anthony
  • Wells, Fargo & Company
  • Wells, William
  • Western Trail
  • Westport and Westport Landing, Missouri
  • Whitman, Marcus, and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman
  • Whitney, Asa
  • Whoop-Up Trail
  • Wilkinson, James
  • Williams, William “Old Bill”
  • Winnemucca, Sarah
  • Wolfskill, William
  • Woman Suffrage
  • Wootton, Richens Lacy “Uncle Dick”
  • Wounded Knee
  • Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis
  • Y
  • Yellowstone Surveying Expeditions
  • Young, Brigham
  • Young, Ewing
  • Yuma
  • Z
  • Zuni
  • Primary Documents
  • Proclamation of 1763, King George III
  • Northwest Ordinance (1787)
  • Interview with Daniel Boone (1797)
  • Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
  • Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific (1805)
  • Zebulon Pike's Journey Up the Mississippi River (1805–1806) and to the Far American Southwest (1806–1807)
  • How to Make a Beaver Hat (1807)
  • Indian Removal Act (1830)
  • On the Oregon Trail: A Firsthand Account (1834)
  • Letter from Narcissa Whitman on the Journey West (1836)
  • Bent's Fort, Colorado: Two Descriptions (1839, 1847)
  • Annexation of Texas (1845)
  • War with Mexico: Message from President James K. Polk to Congress (1846)
  • Oregon Treaty (1846)
  • U.S. Occupation of New Mexico: Speech by Stephen Watts Kearny (1846)
  • Firsthand Account of a Donner Party Survivor (1847)
  • Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
  • Gadsden Purchase Treaty (1853)
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
  • Homestead Act (1862)
  • Pacific Railway Act (1862)
  • Alaska Purchase Treaty (1867)
  • Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
  • Surviving the Elements on the Journey West: A Firsthand Account (1873–1874)
  • Black Migration: Congressional Testimony of Benjamin Singleton (1880)
  • Massacre at Wounded Knee, the Sioux Account (1891)
  • Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
  • Fur Trade Rendezvous (1902)
  • Chronology
  • Master Bibliography
  • Books
  • Web Sites