The Westward Movement

by Unknown

New York

London

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE CENTURY CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. 326

PRINTED IN U. S. A.

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CONTENTS

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Beginnings of the Westward Movement	S. E. Forman	[3]
The Settlement of the West	Emerson Hough	[14]
The Pony Express	W. F. Bailey	[46]
Early Western Steamboating	Archer B. Hulbert	[56]
George Rogers Clark	Theodore Roosevelt	[61]
Boone's Wilderness Road	Archer B. Hulbert	[69]
Daniel Boone	Theodore Roosevelt	[75]
Pioneer Farming	Morris Birkbeck	[82]
A Pioneer Boyhood	James B. Pond	[88]
"The Plains Across"	Noah Brooks	[103]
The First Emigrant Train to California	John Bidwell	[119]
Résumé of Frémont's Expeditions	M. N. O.	[140]
Rough Times in Rough Places	C. G. McGehee	[151]
Kit Carson	Charles M. Harvey	[163]
The Macmonnies Pioneer Monument for Denver		[173]
The Discovery of Gold in California	John S. Hittell	[175]
Pioneer Mining	E. G. Waife	[192]
The Great Northwest	E. V. Smalley	[199]
The Great Southwest	Ray S. Baker	[214]
The Desert	Ray S. Baker	[223]

Acknowledgment is made of the courtesy of Archer B. Hulbert in granting permission to use the articles on "Early Western Steamboating," and "Boone's Wilderness Road," from his book "Historic Highways."

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