The Westward Movement 1832-1889

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VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST

THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT
1832-1889

Edited by Richard B. Morris Gouverneur Morris Professor of History Columbia University New York, New York

James Woodress Chairman, Department of English San Fernando Valley State College Northridge, California

WEBSTER PUBLISHING COMPANY
ST. LOUIS ATLANTA DALLAS

VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST The Beginnings of America 1607-1763 The Times That Tried Men’s Souls 1770-1783 The Age of Washington 1783-1801 The Jeffersonians 1801-1829 Jacksonian Democracy 1829-1848 The Westward Movement 1832-1889 The House Divided: The Civil War 1850-1865 (Other titles in preparation)

Acknowledgments

Pages [5]-8. From Sarah Royce, A Frontier Lady. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.

Pages [8]-11. From Henry Ellsworth, Washington Irving on the Prairie, edited by Williams and Simison, reprinted by permission of American Book Company.

Pages [14]-16. From the Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, reprinted by permission of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.