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
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
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
