Front matter
Reading edition
VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT 1832-1889
Edited by
Richard B. Morris
Gouverneur Morris Professor of History
Columbia University
New York, New York
James Woodress
Chairman, Department of English
San Fernando Valley State College
Northridge, California
WEBSTER PUBLISHING COMPANY ST. LOUIS ATLANTA DALLAS
VOICES FROM AMERICA’S PAST
The Beginnings of America 1607-1763
The Times That Tried Men’s Souls 1770-1783
The Age of Washington 1783-1801
The Jeffersonians 1801-1829
Jacksonian Democracy 1829-1848
The Westward Movement 1832-1889
The House Divided: The Civil War 1850-1865
(Other titles in preparation)
Acknowledgments
Pages 5-8. From Sarah Royce, A Frontier Lady. Reprinted by permission of Yale University Press.
Pages 8-11. From Henry Ellsworth, Washington Irving on the Prairie, edited by Williams and Simison, reprinted by permission of American Book Company.
Pages 14-16. From the Autobiography of Isaac Jones Wistar, reprinted by permission of The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology.
Pages 51-55. From Giants in the Earth, by O. E. Rölvaag. Copyright 1927 by Harper and Brothers. Reprinted by permission of Harper and Brothers.
Copyright ©, 1961, by Webster Publishing Company
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved
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