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Tables of Contents for The American West
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Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART I: From Prehistory to Early European Explorations (?ûca. 1700).
Acoma.
adobe.
Alarcon, Hernando de.
Alvarado Expedition.
Anasazi.
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez.
Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez.
Canyon de Chelly.
Cardenas, Garcia Lopez de.
Cartier, Jacques.
Chaco Canyon.
Champlain, Samuel de.
chili peppers.
Columbus, Christopher.
Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de.
Cortes, Hernan.
de Benavides, Fray Alonso.
de Niza, Fray Marcos.
de Soto, Hernando.
Diaz, Melchior.
Drake, Francis.
El Morro/Inscription Rock.
El Paso del Norte.
Espejo, Antonio.
Esteban.
Ferrelo, Bartolome.
Folsom Point.
Fox Indians.
Grand Canyon.
Hopi Indians.
horses.
HudsonÆs Bay Company.
Iroquois.
Kennewick Man.
King PhilipÆs War.
kiva.
Las Casas, Bartolome de.
The Marquette and Jolliet Expedition.
mestizos and mulattos.
missionaries (Franciscans and Jesuits).
Mississippi River.
Missouri River.
Monument Valley.
Mourning/Beaver Wars, 1608û1701.
Navajo.
New France Exploration, 1524û1763.
New Netherlands.
Onate, Juan de.
Pays dÆen Haut/Middle Ground.
Pope.
Pueblo Bonito.
Radisson, Pierre-Esprit.
repartimiento.
Rio Grande.
San Gabriel.
Santa Fe.
smallpox.
St. Augustine.
Straits of Anian.
Treaty of Tordesillas.
Tucson.
Vargas, Diego de.
Vizcaino, Sebastian.
Yaquis.
PART II: From La SalleÆs Expeditions to the Louisiana Purchase (1682û1803).
Baranov, Aleksander.
Beaubien, Charles (ôBlack Snakeö).
Bering, Vitus.
Blue Jacket.
Boone, Daniel.
Bourgmont, Etienne Veniard de.
Braddock, Edward.
Brant, Joseph.
Carver, Jonathan.
Charbonneau, Touissant.
Chouteau, Auguste.
Clark, George Rogers.
Cresap, Michael.
de la Balme, August.
de Linctot, Daniel-Maurice Godefroy.
French and Indian War (Seven Years War).
fur trapping/fur trade.
Handsome Lake.
headright.
Hennepin, Louis.
Hiawatha.
Huronia.
Kenton, Simon.
Kentucky long rifle.
Kino, Father Eusebio Francisco.
La Salle, Rene-Robert Cavelier de.
Long Portage/Kekionga.
Lord DunmoreÆs War.
Louisiana Purchase.
MacKenzie, Alexander.
Maisonville, Alexis and Francis.
Mallet, Pierre and Paul.
McKee, Alexander.
Miami.
Miami-Federalist War, 1790û1795.
Michilimackinac.
moccasins.
Neolin.
Northwest Ordinance.
Old Briton.
Pacanne.
PontiacÆs Rebellion.
Potawatomi.
Proclamation Line of 1763.
Provincias Internas.
Roman Catholic Missions.
San Antonio.
Sequoyah.
Shawnee.
Sieur dÆIberville.
South Pass.
St. Clair, Arthur.
St. Denis, Louis Juchereau de.
Tabeau, Pierre-Antoine.
Taucumwah.
Tonti, Henry de.
Treaty of Fort Finney, 1786.
Treaty of Fort Stanwix (First and Second Treaties).
Treaty of Greenville.
Treaty of Vincennes.
Truteau, Jean Baptiste.
Vial, Pedro.
Villasur Expedition.
Wabash River.
PART III: From Lewis and Clark to the Pony Express (1803û1861).
American Fur Company.
Arikaras.
Ashley, William H.
Astor, John Jacob.
Austin, Moses.
Austin, Stephen Fuller.
Battle of San Jacinto, 1836.
Battle of Tippecanoe.
Becknell, William.
Beckwourth, Jim.
Benton, Thomas Hart.
Black Hawk.
Black Hawk War.
Blackfoot.
Boonesborough.
Border Ruffians/ôpukesö.
Bowie knife.
branding.
Bridger, James (ôJimö).
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA).
Butterfield Overland Mail.
California Gold Rush.
Carson, Christopher Houston (ôKitö).
Catlin, George.
Cherokee Indians.
Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia/Worcester v. State of Georgia.
Clay, Henry.
Colt handguns.
Colter, John.
Comstock Lode.
Conestoga wagon.
Cooper, James Fenimore.
The Creek (ôRed Stickö) War.
Crockett, David (ôDavyö).
Crows.
Donner Party.
Douglas, Stephen Arnold.
Dred Scott decision.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo.
Fort Dearborn Massacre.
Forty-Niners.
ôFree Soil, Free Labor, Free Menö.
Fremont, Jessie Ann Benton.
Fremont, John Charles.
Goliad Massacre.
Gregg, Josiah.
Harrison, William Henry.
Houston, Sam.
Indian Removal Act of 1830.
Jackson, Andrew.
Jayhawkers.
Jefferson, Thomas.
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Kearny, Stephen Watts.
Larkin, Thomas Oliver.
Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of (ôLDSö or ôMormonsö).
Lee, Jason.
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Mangas Coloradas.
Manifest Destiny.
Marcy, Randolph.
McKenney, Thomas Loraine.
Mexican War.
Missouri Compromise.
mountain men.
mustangs.
National Road.
Oregon Trail.
Osage Indians.
Panic of 1837.
Panic of 1857.
Parker, Cynthia Ann.
Parkman, Francis.
Pawnee Indians.
Pike, Zebulon Montgomery.
placer (gold) mining.
plow.
Pony Express.
ôpopular sovereigntyö.
Pottawatomie Massacre.
preemption and squatterÆs rights.
Quaker missions.
Richardville, Jean Baptiste.
Ross, John.
Sacagawea.
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de.
Santa Fe Trail.
Shoshone Indians.
Smith, Jedediah.
Spalding, Henry.
Spencer Repeating Rifle.
spurs.
stagecoaches.
steamboats.
Sutter, John Augustus.
Tecumseh.
Tenskwatawa.
Texas Rangers.
Texas Revolution.
Trail of Tears.
Travis, William Barret.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848.
Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
Vanderbilt, Cornelius.
Walker, Joseph R.
The War of 1812.
western art before the Civil War.
western music before the Civil War.
The Whitman mission.
Young, Brigham.
PART IV: From the Civil War to the Closing of the Frontier (1861û1893).
Bancroft, Hubert Howe.
barbed wire.
Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876.
Battle of the Washita, 1868.
Bean, Roy.
Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty or William H. Bonney).
Black Hills.
Black Kettle.
Bland, Richard P.
Bosque Redondo.
Bozeman Trail.
buffalo (bison).
Buffalo Soldiers.
Buntline, Ned (Edward Zane Carrol Judson).
Calamity Jane (Martha Cannary).
Cassidy, Butch (Robert LeRoy Parker).
cattle drives.
cattle towns.
chaps.
Cheyennes.
Chief Joseph.
Chinese Exclusion Act.
Chivington, John M.
Civil War.
Cochise.
Code of the West.
Cody, William Frederick (ôBuffalo Billö).
Comanche Indians.
cotton industry/cotton production.
cowboy poetry.
cowboys.
Crazy Horse.
ôCrime of æ73ö.
Crook, George.
Custer, George Armstrong.
Dalton Gang.
Daly, Marcus.
Dart, Isom (Ned Huddleston).
Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Deadwood Dick (Nat Love).
dime novels.
Dodge City.
Earp, Wyatt Berry Stapp.
Exodusters.
Fetterman Massacre.
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham.
Friends of the Indian.
Garrett, Pat.
Geronimo.
Ghost Dance.
ghost towns.
Great Northern Railroad.
Great Sioux War, 1876û1877.
Greeley, Horace.
Hardin, John Wesley.
Hickok, James Butler (ôWild Billö).
Holliday, John Henry (ôDocö).
Homestead Act.
Howard, Oliver Otis.
Huntington, Collis Potter.
Indian Wars and reservation policy, 1864û1890.
irrigation.
Jackson, Helen Hunt (Helen Maria Fiske).
James, Jesse.
Johnson County War.
Kiowa Indians.
Land Grant College Act of 1862 (Morrill Act).
Lillie, Gordon William (ôPawnee Billö).
Loving, Oliver.
Masterson, Bartholemew (ôBatö) (later, William Barclay).
Miles, Nelson Appleton.
Minnesota Sioux Uprising of 1862.
Modoc War.
Moffat, David Halliday, Jr.
Moran, Thomas.
Muir, John.
National Bank and Currency Acts.
Navajo Long Walk.
Nez Perce Indians.
Nez Perce War.
Nicodemus, Kansas.
Northern Pacific Railroad.
O.K. Corral.
Oakley, Annie (Phoebe Ann Moses).
Opening of the Oklahoma Territory.
OÆSullivan, Timothy H.
Parker, Ely S.
Parker, Quannah.
Pinkerton, Allan.
polygamy.
Populist Party/Populism.
prostitution.
Quantrill, William Clarke.
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-Luta).
Red River War, 1874û1875.
Reno, Marcus A.
Ringo, John Peters.
rodeos.
Sand Creek Massacre, 1864.
Sheridan, Philip Henry.
Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
Sherman, William Tecumseh.
Sioux Indians.
Sitting Bull.
Southern Pacific Railroad.
Stanford, Leland.
Starr, Belle (Myra Belle Shirley).
Stetson hats.
Strauss, Levi (ôLoebö).
Stuart, Granville.
Swift, Gustavus.
Tabor, Elizabeth (ôBaby Doeö).
telegraph.
Tilghman, William Matthew (ôBillö), Jr.
Tombstone, Arizona.
transcontinental railroads.
Union Pacific Railroad.
United States Cavalry.
Wells Fargo & Company.
Winchester rifles.
Wounded Knee Massacre.
Yellowstone National Park.
PART V: The Modern Era (1893ûThe Present).
Adams, Ansel.
aerospace industry in the West.
air conditioning.
Alamogordo (Trinity Atomic Bomb Test).
Alcatraz.
Amazon.com.
Apple Computers.
Area 51/Groom Lake.
Ash, Mary Kay.
Astrodome.
Autry, (Orvon) Gene.
Azusa Street revival.
The Bakersfield Sound.
Bank of America (BankAmerica).
Baum, L. Frank.
The Beach Boys.
Beats.
Berkeley ôFree Speechö Movement.
Black Elk.
Borah, William E.
bracero program.
Branson, Missouri.
Brown, Molly.
Bryan, William Jennings.
Bureau of Land Management.
Bush, George Herbert Walker.
Bush, George W.
California fitness/aerobic craze.
Cash, Johnny.
Cather, Willa.
Chavez, Cesar Estrada.
Cheyenne Mountain (NORAD).
Chicanos.
chili cookoffs.
Chinatowns.
Church, Frank.
Colorado River Community Compact.
commercial fishing in the West.
ôconcealed carryö laws.
credit cards.
Crystal Cathedral.
Curtis, Charles.
Dallas Cowboys.
dam movement of the 20th century.
de Voto, Bernard.
Debo, Angie.
Denver, John.
Disneyland.
Dobie, J. Frank.
The Doors.
Douglas Aircraft Company.
Dubois, Fred T.
dude ranches.
Dust Bowl.
Eastwood, Clinton (ôClintö).
Eccles, Marriner Stoddard.
Edwards Air Force Base.
El Teatro Campesino.
endangered species/ôtakingsö clauses.
The FaithDome.
Fall, Albert B.
ôfern barsö.
Ford, John.
Giannini, Amadeo Peter (ôA. P.ö).
Golden Gate Bridge.
Goldwater, Barry Morris.
Grey, Zane.
Haggard, Merle.
Harvey Girls.
Hawaii.
Hayden, Carl T.
Hayes, Ira.
Haywood, William Dudley (ôBig Billö).
Hillerman, Tony.
Hollywood.
Hoover Dam.
Hoover, Herbert Clark.
Hughes, Howard Robard.
illegal immigration.
Indian alcoholism.
Indian Reorganization Act.
Japanese internment in World War II.
Johnson, Hiram.
Johnson, Lyndon Baines.
Jordan, Barbara Charlene.
Kaiser, Henry J.
LÆAmour, Louis.
Lange, Dorothea.
Las Vegas.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Lockheed Aircraft Company.
London, Jack Griffith.
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock, 1903.
Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory.
Los Angeles Dodgers/western sports expansion.
Lubbock and the sound of west Texas.
Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.
MacDonald, Peter.
Mankiller, Wilma.
McMurtry, Larry.
McPherson, Aimee Semple.
Means, Russell.
Microsoft.
military base closures in the West.
Mix, Tom.
Monterey International Pop Festival.
Mount Rushmore.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
National Rifle Association (NRA).
Native American Church.
Navajo code talkers.
New Age movement in the West.
Newlands Reclamation Act.
Nixon, Richard Milhous.
Non-Partisan League.
O. J. Simpson trial.
OÆConnor, Sandra Day.
OÆKeeffe, Georgia.
Oklahoma City bombing.
Osage oil.
The Osmonds (Donny and Marie).
Owens Valley incident.
Parker, Fess.
Perot, H. Ross.
petroleum (oil) industry in the West.
peyote (mescaline).
Pinchot, Gifford.
Proposition 13.
RAND Corporation.
Rankin, Jeanette Pickering.
Ray, Dixie Lee.
Rayburn, Samuel (ôSamö) Taliaferro.
Reagan, Ronald Wilson.
Remington, Frederic.
Roberts, Monty.
Rodney King and the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
Rogers, Roy.
Rogers, William Penn Adair (ôWillö).
Roosevelt, Theodore.
The Rose Bowl.
Roswell crash and UFOs.
Russell, Charles Marion.
Salamander Letter.
Sandia.
Schroeder, Patricia Scott.
Seattle ôgrungeö sound.
The Seattle Space Needle.
Second Wounded Knee.
Selena (Selena Quintanilla).
Silicon Valley.
skiing.
Spindletop.
Stagecoach, the movie.
Starbucks Coffee.
Stegner, Wallace.
Sundance Institute.
surf music.
surfing.
Tan, Amy.
Teapot Dome scandal.
Texaco.
Texas Instruments.
Thorpe, James Francis (ôJimö).
tourism development in the West.
Turner, Frederick Jackson.
United Farm Workers.
United States Air Force Academy.
Villa, Pancho.
Waco and the Branch Davidians.
Walton, Sam.
Warner Brothers.
The Watts riots.
Wayne, John.
Webb, Walter Prescott.
ôwesternö movies.
the ôwesternö on television.
western swing dancing.
Wheeler, Burton Kendall.
Williams, Hank.
Wister, Owen.
WomenÆs Professional Rodeo Association.
World War II in the West.
Zoot suit riots.
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