The Making of the Great West

"This history is intended to meet the want for brief, compact, and handy manuals of the beginnings of our country. In this volume, I have followed up to its legitimate ending the work done by the three great rival powers of modern times in civilizing our continent. I have tried to make it the worthy, if modest, exponent of a great theme. The story grows to absorbing interest, as the great achievement of the age."

Contents:

Three Rival Civilizations

The Spaniards

An Historic Era

De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi

Death and Burial of De Soto

The Indians of Florida

How New Mexico Came to Be Explored

"the Marvellous Country"

Folk Lore of the Pueblos

Last Days of Charles V. And Philip Ii.

Sword and Gown in California

The French

Westward by the Great Inland Waterways

The Situation in a.d. 1672

Count Frontenac

Joliet and Marquette

The Man La Salle

La Salle, Prince of Explorers

Discovery of the Upper Mississippi

The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas

Iberville Founds Louisiana

France Wins the Prize

Louis Xiv.

The English

The Bleak North-west Coast

Hudson's Bay to the South Sea

The Russians in Alaska

England on the Pacific

Queen Elizabeth

What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766

John Ledyard's Idea

A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River

The West at the Opening of the Century

Birth of the American Idea.

America for Americans.

Acquisition of Louisiana

A Glance at Our Purchase

The Pathfinders

Lewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri

They Cross the Continent

Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley

New Mexico in 1807

Gold in Colorado.—a Trapper's Story

The Flag in Oregon

Louisiana Admitted 1812

The Oregon Trail

The Trapper, Backwoodsman, and Emigrant

Long Explores the Platte Valley

Missouri and the Compromise of 1821

Arkansas Admitted 1836

Thomas H.