Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion
Author: Ray Allen Billington
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Total Pages: 918
Release: 1982
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780023098604

When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's 'Westward Expansion' set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi frontier. Although the text sets out the remarkable story of the American frontier, which became, almost from the beginning, an archetypal narrative of the new American nation's successful expansion, the authors do not forget the social, environmental, and human cost of national expansion.

Bound Away

Bound Away
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813917740

A study of the migration patterns that characterized the colony and (later) state of Virginia over the three century history following its European founding. Dividing the topic into three patterns--migration to, within, and from Virginia--Fischer (history, Brandeis U) and Kelly (Virginia Historical Society) study the reasons behind the migrations of various populations, paying special attention to African Americans, and explore the cultural legacy of the migrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History

Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny in American History
Author: Richard Worth
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2001
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780766014572

Discusses the concept of manifest destiny and examines the diplomatic deals and wars that brought new territories under American control and allowed the country to expand westward to the Pacific Ocean.

Manifest Destiny

Manifest Destiny
Author: Shane Mountjoy
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2009
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 1438119836

As the population of the 13 colonies grew and the economy developed, the desire to expand into new land increased. Nineteenth-century Americans believed it was their divine right to expand their territory from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. "Manifest destiny," a phrase first used in 1839 by journalist John O'Sullivan, embodied the belief that God had given the people of the United States a mission to spread a republican democracy across the continent. Advocates of manifest destiny were determined to carry out their mission and instigated several wars, including the war with Mexico to win much of what is now the southwestern United States. In Manifest Destiny: Westward Expansion, learn how this philosophy to spread out across the land shaped our nation.

Feast Or Famine

Feast Or Famine
Author: Reginald Horsman
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2008
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0826266363

"Drawing on the journals and correspondence of pioneers, Horsman examines more than a hundred years of history, recording components of the diets of various groups, including travelers, settlers, fur traders, soldiers, and miners. He discusses food-preparation techniques, including the development of canning, and foods common in different regions"--Provided by publisher.

Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion
Author: Allison Lassieur
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1515743004

"3 story paths, 47 choices, 19 endings"--Cover.

Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement

Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement
Author: Linda S. Peavy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806126197

Looks at the lives of the homebound wives of Western pioneers