The Making of the Great West

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"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. Benton's Idea 
 With the Vanguard to Oregon
 Texas Admitted 
 New Political Ideas 
 Iowa Admitted 
 The War With Mexico 
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Autorenportrait

Samuel Adams Drake (1833 ¿ 1905) was a United States journalist and writer. He went to Kansas in 1858 as telegraphic agent of the New York Associated Press, became the regular correspondent of the St. Louis Republican and the Louisville Journal, and for a while edited the Leavenworth Times. In 1861 he joined the state militia and served throughout the American Civil War, becoming brigadier general of militia in 1863.

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