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The Making of the Great West

by Samuel Adams Drake

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Group I — Three Rival Civilizations — I — The Spaniards
  3. 3De Soto’s Discovery of the Mississippi
  4. 4Death and Burial of de Soto
  5. 5The Indians of Florida
  6. 6How New Mexico Came to Be Explored
  7. 7“The Marvellous Country”
  8. 8Folk Lore of the Pueblos
  9. 9Last Days of Charles V. and Philip II
  10. 10Sword and Gown in California
  11. 11II — The French
  12. 12Westward by the Great Inland Waterways
  13. 13The Situation in A.D. 1672
  14. 14Count Frontenac
  15. 15Joliet and Marquette
  16. 16The Man La Salle
  17. 17La Salle, Prince of Explorers
  18. 18Discovery of the Upper Mississippi
  19. 19The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas
  20. 20Iberville Founds Louisiana
  21. 21France Wins the Prize
  22. 22Louis XIV
  23. 23III — The English
  24. 24Hudson’s Bay to the South Sea
  25. 25The Russians in Alaska
  26. 26England on the Pacific
  27. 27Queen Elizabeth
  28. 28Interlude — What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766
  29. 29John Ledyard’s Idea
  30. 30A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River
  31. 31The West at the Opening of the Century
  32. 32Group II. — Birth of the American Idea — I — America for Americans
  33. 33A Glance at Our Purchase
  34. 34II — The Pathfinders
  35. 35They Cross the Continent
  36. 36Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley — Pike’s Peak a Landmark
  37. 37New Mexico in 1807
  38. 38Gold in Colorado — A Trapper’s Story
  39. 39The Flag in Oregon
  40. 40Louisiana Admitted
  41. 41III — The Oregon Trail
  42. 42Long Explores the Platte Valley
  43. 43Missouri, and the Compromise of 1821
  44. 44Arkansas Admitted 1836
  45. 45Thomas H. Benton’s Idea — “There Is the East! There Lies the Road t…
  46. 46With the Vanguard to Oregon — “This Army Does Not Retreat!”
  47. 47Texas Admitted
  48. 48Interlude — New Political Ideas
  49. 49Iowa Admitted
  50. 50The War With Mexico — “You Can Do Any Thing With a Bayonet but Sit…
  51. 51Conquest of New Mexico
  52. 52The Taking of California
  53. 53The Mormons in Utah
  54. 54I — The Great Emigration
  55. 55Swarming Through the Golden Gate
  56. 56The California Pioneers
  57. 57California a Free State
  58. 58Arizona
  59. 59II — The Contest for Free Soil
  60. 60Kansas the Battle-Ground
  61. 61The Battle Fought and Won
  62. 62Two Free States Admitted
  63. 63III — The Crown of the Continent
  64. 64The Pacific Railroad — In Time of War Prepare for Peace
  65. 65Kansas, Nevada, Nebraska and Colorado Admitted
  66. 66The Recent States
  67. 67The Work of Eighty Years

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