To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United States was just another imperial overlord to be assessed and manipulated. This was not, as Empires, Nations
Looks at the lives of the lives of families from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the Spanish and Mexican borderlands, in order to provide a personal exploration of this history of the
Shaped by the West is a primary-source reader that re-writes the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics,
Shaped by the West is a primary-source reader that re-writes the history of the United States through a western lens. America’s expansion west was the driving force for issues of democracy, politics,
In 1842 John C. Fremont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843 Fre
