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The Original Grants (color map)Facing[4]
German and Scotch-Irish Settlements[8]
Distribution of Population in 1790[27]
English, French, and Spanish Possessions in America, 1750 (color map)Facing[59]
The Colonies at the Time of the Declaration of Independence (color map)Facing[108]
North America according to the Treaty of 1783 (color map)Facing[134]
The United States in 1805 (color map)Facing[193]
Roads and Trails into Western Territory (color map)Facing[224]
The Cumberland Road[233]
Distribution of Population in 1830[235]
Texas and the Territory in Dispute[282]
The Oregon Country and the Disputed Boundary[285]
The Overland Trails[287]
Distribution of Slaves in Southern States[323]
The Missouri Compromise[326]
Slave and Free Soil on the Eve of the Civil War[335]
The United States in 1861 (color map)Facing[345]
Railroads of the United States in 1918[405]
The United States in 1870 (color map)Facing[427]
The United States in 1912 (color map)Facing[443]
American Dominions in the Pacific (color map)Facing[500]
The Caribbean Region (color map)Facing[592]
Battle Lines of the Various Years of the World War[613]
Europe in 1919 (color map)Between[618]-[619]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[The Nations of the West]
[John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company]
[William Penn, Proprietor of Pennsylvania]
[A Glimpse of Old Germantown]
[Old Dutch Fort and English Church Near Albany]
[Southern Plantation Mansion]
[A New England Farmhouse]
[Domestic Industry: Dipping Tallow Candles]
[The Dutch West India Warehouse in New Amsterdam (New York City)]
[A Page from a Famous Schoolbook]
[The Royal Governor's Palace at New Berne]
[Virginians Defending Themselves against the Indians]
[Braddock's Retreat]
[Benjamin Franklin]
[George III]
[Patrick Henry]
[Samuel Adams]
[Spirit of 1776]
[Thomas Paine]
[Thomas Jefferson Reading His Draft of the Declaration]
[Mobbing the Tories]
[George Washington]
[Robert Morris]
[Alexander Hamilton]
[An Advertisement of The Federalist]
[Celebrating the Ratification]
[First United States Bank at Philadelphia]
[Louis XVI in the Hands of the Mob]
[A Quarrel between a Federalist and a Republican]
[New England Jumping into the Hands of George III]
[John Marshall]
[A Log Cabin—Lincoln's Birthplace]
[An Early Mississippi Steamboat]
[Thomas Dorr Arousing His Followers]
[Andrew Jackson]
[Daniel Webster]
[An Old Cartoon Ridiculing Clay's Tariff]
[Santa Barbara Mission]
[San Francisco in 1849]
[A New England Mill Built in 1793]
[An Early Railway]
[Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1838]
[John C. Calhoun]
[Henry Clay]
[An Old Cartoon Representing Webster "Stealing Clay's Thunder"]
[Harriet Beecher Stowe]
[Jefferson Davis]
[The Draft Riots in New York City]
[A Blockade Runner]
[John Bright]
[William H. Seward]
[Abraham Lincoln]
[General Ulysses S. Grant]
[General Robert E. Lee]
[The Federal Military Hospital at Gettysburg]
[Steel Mills—Birmingham, Alabama]
[A Southern Cotton Mill in a Cotton Field]
[A Glimpse of Memphis, Tennessee]
[A Corner in the Bethlehem Steel Works]
[John D. Rockefeller]
[Wall Street, New York City]
[A Town on the Prairie]
[Logging]
[The Canadian Building]
[Commodore Perry's Men Making Presents to the Japanese]
[William J. Bryan in 1898]
[President McKinley and His Cabinet]
[Grover Cleveland]
[An old cartoon.A Sight Too Bad]
[Cuban Revolutionists]
[A Philippine Home]
[Roosevelt Talking to the Engineer of a Railroad Train]
[Panama Canal]
[A Sugar Mill, Porto Rico]
[Mr Taft in the Philippines]
[The Roosevelt Dam, Phoenix, Arizona]
[An East Side Street in New York]
[Abigail Adams]
[Susan B. Anthony]
[Conference of Men and Women Delegates]
[Samuel Gompers and Other Labor Leaders]
[The Launching of a Ship at the Great Naval Yards, Newark, N.J.]
[Troops Returning from France]
[Premiers Lloyd George, Orlando and Clémenceau and President Wilson at Paris]

"The Nations of the West" (popularly called "The Pioneers"), designed by A. Stirling Calder and modeled by Mr. Calder, F.G.R. Roth, and Leo Lentelli, topped the Arch of the Setting Sun at the Panama-Pacific Exposition held at San Francisco in 1915. Facing the Court of the Universe moves a group of men and women typical of those who have made our civilization. From left to right appear the French-Canadian, the Alaskan, the Latin-American, the German, the Italian, the Anglo-American, and the American Indian, squaw and warrior. In the place of honor in the center of the group, standing between the oxen on the tongue of the prairie schooner, is a figure, beautiful and almost girlish, but strong, dignified, and womanly, the Mother of To-morrow. Above the group rides the Spirit of Enterprise, flanked right and left by the Hopes of the Future in the person of two boys. The group as a whole is beautifully symbolic of the westward march of American civilization.

Photograph by Cardinell-Vincent Co., San Francisco
"The Nations of the West"