From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would stretch across the North American continent, from ocean to ocean. The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John “Johnny Appleseed” Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. Their stories-and those of the nameless thousands who risked their lives to settle on the frontier, displacing thou- sands of Native Americans-form an extraordinary chapter in American history that led directly to the cataclysm of the Civil War. Filled with illustrations, portraits, maps, battle plans, notes, and time lines, Lions of the West is a richly authoritative biography of America-its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny.

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Ever since they first set foot in the new world alongside the Viking explorers, the Scots have left their mark. In this entertaining and informative book, historian Michael Fry shows how Americans of Scottish heritage helped shape this country, from its founding days to the present. They were courageous pioneers, history-changing revolutionaries, great Presidents, doughty fighters, inspiring writers, learned teachers, intrepid explorers, daring frontiersmen, and of course buccaneering businessmen, media moguls, and capitalists throughout American history. The Scots' unflappable spirit and hardy disposition helped them take root among the earliest settlements and become some of the British colonies' foremost traders. During the Revolution, the teachings of the great Scottish philosophers and economists would help to shape the democracy that thrived in America as in no other part of the world. America may have separated from the British Empire, but the Scottish influence on the young continent never left.Armed with an inimitable range of historical knowledge, Fry charts the exchange of ideas and values between Scotland and America that led to many of the greatest achievements in busi... [Read More]

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CONTENTS: Horizontal Integration and regional Diversity: An Alternating Process in the Rise of Civilizations - Gordon R. Willey * Technological Organization and Hunter-Gatherer Land Use: A California Example - Douglas B. Bamforth * Altithermal Archaeology and Paleoecology at Mustang Springs, on the Southern High Plains of Texas - David J. Meltzer * Prehistoric Clinker Use on the Cape Bathurst Peninsula, Northwest Territories, Canada: The Dynamics of Formation and Procurement - Raymond J. Le Blanc * Ceramics, Chronology, and Horizon Markers at Wickliffe (Kentucky) Mounds - Kit W. Wesler Evaluating the Construction Sequence and Population of Pot Creek Pueblo, Northern New Mexico - Patricia L. Crown * Environmental Variability and Settlement Changes on the Pajarito Plateau, New Mexico - Janet D. Orcutt * COMMENTARY Monte Verde, Chile: A Comment on Lynch - Tom D. Dillehay and Michael B. Collins * A Review of Lynch's Descriptions of South American Sites - Ruth Gruhn and Alan L. Bryan Lack of Evidence for Glacial-Age Settlement of South America: Reply to Dillehay and Collins and to Gruhn and Bryan - Thomas F. Lynch * CURRENT RESEARCH Far North, Northwest, California and the Great Basin -... [Read More]

Enjoy the real-life adventures of the Thomas Jefferson Shadden family as they live America's dream of "Manifest Destiny." They traveled the Oregon Trail, from Missouri to Oregon in 1842, and the Trapper's Trail to Sutter's Fort in Alta California, Mexico in 1843.Settling south of Sutter's Fort on the Consumnes River in 1843, they participated in the Mexican-American War, the California God Rush, and in the early days of development in the new states of California and Oregon.

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