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Reading the American West Primary Sources in American History

by: Roth, Mitchel P.

Reading the American West Primary Sources in American History

by: Roth, Mitchel P.

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9780321044099
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0321044096
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 09/30/1998
Publisher: Pearson

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This anthology is from our Primary Sources in American History series, designed to make primary sources widely available in an inexpensive format that encourages analytical thinking. The letters, diary excerpts, speeches, interviews and newspaper articles inReading the American Westlet students experience what historians really do and how history is written. Every document is accompanied by a contextual headnote and study questions, and each chapter includes extensive introductions.

Preface

vii

The Intellectual West

(34)

The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)

(17)

The West of Walter Prescott Webb (1931)

(4)

The New Western History (1988)

(11)

A Collision of Worlds

(20)

A Zuni Creation Legend

(1)

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, ``Indians of the Rio Grande'' (1528)

(3)

The Micmacs Describe the French Empire (1677)

(2)

The Pueblo Revolt (1680)

(3)

Creek Origins (1735)

(3)

Father Serra Reports on Mission Labor (1772)

(2)

The Religion of the Sioux (1844)

(4)

Acquiring a Continental Empire

(16)

The Land Ordinance of 1785 (1785)

(1)

The Northwest Ordinance (1787)

(3)

The Louisiana Purchase (1803)

(2)

Opposition to the Louisiana Purchase (1803)

(2)

Andrew Jackson, First Annual Message to Congress (1829)

(1)

``Men of the Alamo'' (1836)

(2)

The Annexation of Texas (1845)

(3)

Exploring the New Empire

(18)

Lewis's Initial Report to the President (1806)

(1)

Ben York (1804)

(2)

Sacagawea (1805)

(2)

The Santa Fe Trail (1821)

(1)

Rendezvous and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade (1825)

(2)

A Buffalo Hunt (1832)

(2)

Audubon's Western Journey (1843)

(2)

Fremont's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains (1846)

(2)

Comanches Hostility to Negroes (1852)

(2)

Life in the Antebellum West

(22)

The Forty-Niners (1849)

(3)

Cholera in Missouri (1849)

(2)

Slavery in the Western Territories (1850)

(1)

The Compromise of 1850 (1850)

(3)

People v. George W. Hall (1854)

100

(2)

Slave Women in the West (1850)

102

(4)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

106

(3)

Texas Slave Insurrection (1860)

109

(2)

The Ideology of Westward Expansion

111

(26)

The Preemption Act (1841)

113

(1)

John L. O Sullivan, ``The Great Nation of Futurity'' (1845)

114

(2)

The Mexican War (1846)

116

(4)

The Oregon Treaty (1846)

120

(2)

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)

122

(4)

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)

126

(2)

The Mormons (1862)

128

(2)

The Homestead Act (1862)

130

(1)

The First Transcontinental Railroad (1869)

131

(3)

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

134

(3)

Conflict in the West

137

(28)

The Sioux Uprising in Minnesota (1862)

139

(2)

Hanging of Thirty-Eight Indians (1862)

141

(1)

The Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

142

(6)

An Anti-Chinese Riot in Los Angeles (1871)

148

(3)

The Rock Springs Massacre (1885)

151

(3)

The Death of Sitting Bull (1890)

154

(1)

Wounded Knee (1890)

155

(5)

Johnson County Range War (1892)

160

(5)

Life in the West After the Civil War

165

(22)

The Overland Stage to California (1865)

167

(2)

The Chisholm Trail (1869)

169

(3)

Domestic Life with the Seventh Cavalry (1876)

172

(4)

Building a Sod House (1888)

176

(2)

Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1871)

178

(3)

Isabella Bird s Life in the Rocky Mountains (1882)

181

(2)

Cowboy Vernacular (1895)

183

(1)

Homesteaders (1910)

184

(3)

Promoting the West: Western Icons

187

(26)

Daniel Boone (1814)

189

(3)

Pony Express Rider (1861)

192

(4)

Wild Bill Hickok (1869)

196

(2)

Billy the Kid (1878)

198

(2)

Interview with Sitting Bull (1881)

200

(5)

Teddy Roosevelt, Cowboy (1884)

205

(1)

The American Cowboy Today (1886)

206

(1)

The Death of Belle Starr, the Bandit Queen (1889)

207

(1)

Nat Love, Alias Deadwood Dick (1907)

208

(5)

New Western Politics

213

(24)

The Omaha Platform of the Populist Party (1892)

215

(3)

William Jennings Bryan s Cross of Gold Speech (1896)

218

(4)

Carry Nation (1889)

222

(3)

Woman Suffrage, Wyoming (1889)

225

(2)

Why the Chinese Should Be Excluded (1901)

227

(2)

The Chinese and the Exclusion Act (1901)

229

(1)

Harry Orchard, Labor Union Assassin (1905)

230

(1)

Boley: A Negro Town in the West (1905)

231

(3)

The Japanese in California (1920)

234

(3)

Settlement and Environmental Change

237

(24)

Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon (1823)

239

(2)

Placer Mining (1859)

241

(1)

The Federal Mining Act of 1872 (1872)

242

(1)

Hydraulic Mining (1873)

243

(2)

Timber Act (1873)

245

(1)

John Wesley Powell Reports on the Arid West (1879)

246

(3)

Shooting Prairie Dogs (1901)

249

(2)

The Disappearance of the Buffalo (1893)

251

(1)

Irrigation and the Carey Act of 1894 (1896)

252

(1)

Reclamation Act (1902)

253

(4)

Last Stand of the Redwoods (1915)

257

(4)

The West in Transition

261

(28)

Yellowstone National Park (1894, 1896)

263

(3)

Railroads: The Soul-less Corporation (1900)

266

(5)

Report from the Governor of Arizona (1905)

271

(3)

Brownsville Court Martial (1906)

274

(6)

Geronimo at the World s Fair (1904)

280

(3)

Japanese and Italian Truck Gardeners in Sacramento, California (1911)

283

(2)

Is There a West? (1920)

285

(4)

The New Deal West

289

(16)

Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

291

(2)

John Collier Defends the Indian Reorganization Act (1934)

293

(1)

Taylor Grazing Act (1934)

294

(2)

The Dust Bowl (1934)

296

(1)

Down and Out in the Great Depression (1935)

297

(3)

The Zoot Suit Riots (1940)

300

(2)

Japanese Relocation Order (1942)

302

(3)

The Post-War West: New Realities

305

(33)

The Children of Los Alamos (1947)

307

(4)

Air Conditioning in the Southwest (1950)

311

(3)

The Texas Rangers (1968)

314

(5)

Bulloch v. U.S. (1956)

319

(1)

Watts Riot (1965)

320

(3)

Caesar Chavez to the United Farm Workers of America (1979)

323

(4)

Red Power (1969)

327

(1)

Alcatraz (1970)

328

(4)

Employment Division v. Smith (1990)

332

(1)

Mining Law Reform Act (1991)

333

(4)

American Indians Today (1991)

337

(1)

Grazing and Public Lands (1994)

338

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Reading the American West Primary Sources in American History

Reading the American West Primary Sources in American History

9780321044099

0321044096

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