The West in the History of the Nation, Volume I To 1877

by Deverell, William F.; Hyde, Anne F.

• ISBN13: 9780312191719
• ISBN10: 0312191715
• Edition: 1st
• Format: CD
• Copyright: 2000-03-06
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Table of Contents

Preface	iii
Introduction: Defining the West and the Frontier	xv
Cultures in Conflict
First Encounters	3	(3)
An Aztec View of Europeans	6	(3)
Aztec Messengers Report to Montezuma, 1519	6	(3)
Bernardino de Sahagun
A Spanish View of the Aztecs	9	(3)
Letter to Charles V of Spain, 1519	10	(2)
Hernan Cortes
Questioning Conquest	12	(5)
from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, 1542	13	(4)
Bartolome de Las Casas
Mythical Wealth	17	(3)
Account of the Legend of Cibola, 1538	17	(3)
Marcos de Niza
An Explorer's Disappointment	20	(7)
Account of the Reality of Cibola, 1540	21	(4)
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
Colonization
Religion and Economy in Frontier Regions	25	(2)
Spanish Concerns about Religion in the New World	27	(3)
The Requerimiento, 1513	28	(2)
Palacios Rubios
Conversion and Profit in the Mission System	30	(4)
An Account of Mission Nuestro Padre San Ignacio, 1744	30	(4)
Sebastian de Sistiaga
An Indian's View of Mission Life	34	(3)
Conversion of the San Luisenos of Alta California, 1806	34	(3)
Pablo Tac
French Intentions in the New World	37	(2)
Report to the King of France, 1618	38	(1)
Samuel de Champlain
The Missionary Impulse in New France	39	(3)
``Instructions for the Fathers of Our Society Who Shall Be Sent to the Hurons,'' 1637	40	(2)
Jean de Brebeuf
A Micmac Indian Questions French Habits	42	(7)
Speech to French Settlers, c. 1677	42	(5)
Micmac Elder
The Late Seventeenth Century
Rebellion on Two Frontiers	47	(2)
King Philip's War	49	(2)
``A Relacion of the Indyan Warre,'' 1675	49	(2)
John Easton
A White Woman's Tale of Captivity	51	(6)
from The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, 1682	52	(5)
Mary Rowlandson
The Great Pueblo Revolt	57	(5)
``An Account of the Lamentable Tragedy,'' 1680	58	(4)
Antonio de Otermin
An Indian View of the Pueblo Revolt	62	(7)
``Declaration of Josephe, a Spanish-Speaking Indian,'' 1681	63	(4)
The Eighteenth Century
Building New Societies	67	(2)
Expanding Communities	69	(8)
French, Spanish, and English Colonial Town Plans, 1760--1778	70	(7)
The World of the Backcountry	77	(3)
from The Adventures of Col. Daniel Boon, 1784	78	(2)
John Filson
Family Dynamics in the Colonial World	80	(4)
Marriage Documents and Wills from Pennsylvania and Virginia, 1714 and 1782	81	(3)
New Worlds on the Great Plains	84	(7)
An Account of the Arrival of Horses, Guns, and Smallpox, 1787	84	(5)
Saukamappee
Pre-Revolutionary America
Tensions and War on the Middle Ground	89	(2)
Intercultural Tensions	91	(4)
An Indian Trading Session at Hudson's Bay, 1683	92	(3)
Pierre Radisson
The International Politics of the Fur Trade	95	(3)
Report on French Success, 1755	96	(2)
Edmond Atkin
Echoes of the French and Indian War	98	(5)
Journal of the Siege of Fort Pitt, 1763	99	(4)
William Trent
Two Cultures in Conflict	103	(10)
Images from the Middle Ground, 1755--1804	104	(7)
Revolutions
Empires Lose Their Hold	111	(2)
The Indian War for Independence	113	(2)
Account of Pontiac's Justification for War, 1763	114	(1)
Frontier Grievances	115	(4)
Petition to the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, 1764	116	(3)
Mission Revolts in California	119	(4)
Letter Describing a Revolt in San Diego, 1775	120	(3)
Junipero Serra
Expanding the Spanish Empire	123	(10)
Report on the Colorado River, 1777	123	(6)
Bernardo Miera y Pacheco
The Creation of the American Republic
Incorporating the West	129	(4)
Boundaries for the New Nation	133	(7)
English and American Maps of North America, 1771--1811	133	(7)
Extending the Orderly Republic	140	(3)
The Land Ordinance of 1785	140	(3)
An Indian View of Land Issues	143	(3)
Comments on the Treaty of Greenville, 1795	143	(3)
Little Turtle
Suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion	146	(3)
Orders to Governor Lee of Pennsylvania, 1794	146	(3)
Alexander Hamilton
An Account of Military Intervention	149	(8)
``A Dreadful Night,'' 1794	150	(5)
Henry Brackenridge
D. S. Findley
The Early Republic
The Louisiana Purchase	155	(2)
Launching a Western Reconnaissance	157	(3)
Secret Message to Congress, 1803	158	(2)
Thomas Jefferson
The President Imagines The West	160	(4)
Letter of Instruction to Lewis and Clark, 1803	160	(4)
Thomas Jefferson
Encounters with the Real West	164	(7)
Journal Entries, 1804--1806	165	(6)
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Grander Ambitions	171	(8)
``A Vast Empire in the West,'' 1808	172	(5)
Zebulon Pike
The Age of Jackson
Equality and the ``Indian Problem''	177	(2)
Cherokee Attempts at Assimilation	179	(3)
Letters from Cherokee Women to Their Missionary Patrons, 1828	180	(2)
``Peaceable Removal''	182	(2)
Letter to James Monroe Protesting Removal, 1824	183	(1)
John Ridge
The Place of Indians in the Republic	184	(4)
Annual Messages to Congress, 1830 and 1835	185	(3)
Andrew Jackson
The Human Cost of Removal	188	(4)
Army Correspondence about the Choctaw Removal, 1834	188	(4)
An Account of the Removal West	192	(9)
from Life of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk, Dictated by Himself, 1833	193	(6)
Black Hawk
Slavery
Life for Slaves in the West	199	(2)
Western Statehood and the Slavery Crisis	201	(6)
The Missouri Compromise, 1819--1821	202	(5)
A Criticism of Slavery in Frontier Regions	207	(4)
from The Cotton Kingdom, 1861	207	(4)
Frederick Law Olmsted
Slave Accounts from Texas and Oklahoma	211	(5)
Memories of Slavery, 1938	212	(4)
Monroe Brackins
Lucinda Davis
Indian Slavery in Utah	216	(7)
Brigham Young Justifies the Enslavement of Indians, 1852	217	(4)
Acquisition of the West
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War	221	(2)
Dreams of a Hemispheric Empire	223	(3)
``The Destiny of the Race,'' 1846	224	(2)
Thomas Hart Benton
Creating a Glorious War in the Press	226	(4)
Reports from the Mexican War, 1847	226	(4)
Richard Smith Elliott
Watching the War in New Mexico	230	(5)
``Down the Santa Fe Trail,'' 1846--1847	230	(5)
Susan Magoffin
Opposing Views of Expansion into Mexico	235	(8)
Congressional Debate over Incorporating Mexico, 1848	235	(6)
John Calhoun
John Dix
Westward Migration
Gold, Land, and Ambition	241	(2)
A View of Missionary Opportunities in the West	243	(4)
Letter from Oregon, 1837	244	(3)
Narcissa Whitman
The Mormon Trek	247	(4)
Utah Diary Excerpts, 1851	248	(3)
Jean Rio Baker
A Woman's Account of the Trail Toward Gold	251	(5)
Letter from California, 1850	252	(4)
Louisiana Strentzel
A Family Measures the Cost of Ambition	256	(14)
Letters, 1849--1851	256	(11)
William
Sabrina
George Swain
The Sectional Crisis
The West Divides the Nation	267	(3)
The Compromise of Popular Sovereignty	270	(2)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854	270	(2)
Bleeding Kansas from Opposing Perspectives	272	(10)
Letters from Kansas, 1856	273	(9)
John Lawrie
Axalla John Hoole
Popular Sovereignty and National Politics	282	(5)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates, 1858	282	(5)
An Account of the Mormon War	287	(9)
Letters from Utah, 1857--1858	287	(6)
Jesse A. Gove
The Civil War
Bringing the Battefront to the West	293	(3)
The Confederacy Imagines a Western Empire	296	(3)
Reports on Taking Arizona, 1861	296	(3)
John Baylor
The Battle of Glorietta Pass	299	(3)
An Account of Fighting in New Mexico, 1862	300	(2)
George M. Brown
Confederate Raiders in Missouri and Kansas	302	(3)
A Description of the Attack on Lawrence, Kansas, 1863	303	(2)
John McCorkle
Western Views of the War	305	(10)
Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War, 1862--1865	306	(7)
Reconstruction
New Lives in the West	313	(2)
Accounts of the Exodus to Kansas	315	(9)
Testimony before the U. S. Senate, 1879--1880	316	(8)
Benjamin Singleton
H. Ruby
B. F. Watson
John Milton Brown
A National Magazine's Report of African American Migration	324	(3)
``A Year of the Exodus in Kansas,'' 1880	324	(3)
Henry King
An African American Cowboy's Life	327	(1)
from The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, 1907	327
Nat Love