CHAPTER ONE: A Vast Native World 1. ORIGIN STORIES FROM THE SOUTHWEST, PACIFIC COAST, AND GREAT LAKES 2. DEBATES OVER ANCESTRAL PUEBLOANS 3. MISSISSIPPIAN KINGDOMS 4. VARIETIES OF NATIVE LIFE CHAPTER TWO: First Encounters: Expectation and Cultural Difference 5. ENFORCING CHRISTIANITY ON ANOTHER WORLD 6. AN AZTEC VIEW OF EUROPEANS 7. QUESTIONING CONQUEST 8.
MYTHICAL WEALTH 9. THE MISSIONARY EFFORT IN NEW FRANCE 10. A MICMAC INDIAN QUESTIONS FRENCH HABITS CHAPTER THREE: Conquest and Revolt: 17th Century Wars on Two Frontiers 11. WAMPUM AND THE SIX NATIONS: 12. A WHITE WOMAN''S TALE OF CAPTIVITY 13. THE GREAT PUEBLO REVOLT 14. AN INDIAN VIEW OF THE PUEBLO REVOLT CHAPTER FOUR: New Worlds For All: Conquest and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century 15. EXPANDING COMMUNITIES 16.
THE WORLD OF THE BACKCOUNTRY 17. FAMILY DYNAMICS IN THE COLONIAL WORLD 18. NEW WORLDS ON THE GREAT PLAINS CHAPTER FIVE: From Middle Ground to Settler Frontier: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy 19. INDIANS AND ESCAPED SLAVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA 20. THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICS OF THE FUR TRADE 21. ECHOES OF THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR 22. THE INDIAN WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE 23. CULTURES IN CONFLICT CHAPTER SIX: An Era of Revolution: Many Peoples Demanding Change 24.
MISSION REVOLTS IN CALIFORNIA 25. THE GREAT PEACE IN NEW MEXICO 26. A BIG NEW WORLD IN THE PACIFIC: 27. SUPPRESSING THE WHISKEY REBELLION 28. MISSIONS, FAMILY AUTHORITY AND NATIVE REBELLION CHAPTER SEVEN: Creating the United States: Incorporating the First West 29. BOUNDARIES FOR THE NEW NATION 30. IMAGINING THE ORDERLY REPUBLIC 31. AN INDIAN VIEW OF LAND ISSUES 32.
LOUISIANA: ENCOUNTERING ANOTHER WEST 33. TECUMSEH AND THE WESTERN INDIAN CONFEDERATION CHAPTER EIGHT: Taking Indian Land: Removal and War in the Age of Jackson 34. CHEROKEE EDUCATION AND ASSIMILATION 35. THE PLACE OF INDIANS IN THE REPUBLIC 36. INDIAN REMOVAL AND ITS HUMAN COST 37. WAR IN THE OLD NORTHWEST CHAPTER NINE: Early Republicans: New Nations Test Their Borders 38. MEXICAN REVOLUTIONS AND U.S.
RESPONSES: 1810 REVOLUTION 39. LICENSE TO EXPAND 40. AMERICANS IN MEXICO: PROMISING ELLEGIANCE AND CREATING REVOLUTION IN TEXAS 41. AMERICAN IN MEXICO: REBELLIONS CRUSHED IN NEW MEXICO 42. MISSIONARIES ON THE BORDER: NARCISSA WHITMAN IN OREGON CHAPTER TEN: Slavery, Bondage, and Labor in the West 43. WESTERN STATEHOOD AND THE SLAVERY CRISIS 44. INDIAN SLAVERY IN UTAH 45. CHEROKEE SLAVERY, 1830s 46.
UNFREE LABOR ON THE SEAS CHAPTER 11: The U.S. Mexico War 47. OPPOSING VIEWS OF EXPANSION INTO MEXICO 48. CREATING A GLORIOUS WAR IN CALIFORNIA 49. THE COST OF CONQUEST: A NEW INDIAN WAR 50. Disaster in New Mexico, CHAPTER TWELVE: Westward Migration: Gold, Land, and Ambition 51. A GOLD RUSH FOR SOME 52.
THE MORMON TREK 53. A SCOTSMAN''S ACCOUNT OF THE MALE WORLD OF GOLD RUSH CALIFORNIA 54. A FAMILY MEASURES THE COST OF AMBITION CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The 1850: A Sectional Crisis and a Crisis of Authority 55. THE COMPROMISE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY 56. GUERILLA WAR IN KANSAS FROM OPPOSING PERSPECTIVES 57. INVASIONS AND FILIBUSTERS IN CALIFORNIA AND NICARAGUA 58. AN ACCOUNT OF THE MORMON WAR CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Civil Wars Spread Over the West 59. THE CONFEDERACY IMAGINES A WESTERN EMPIRE 60.
DAKOTA WAR IN 1862 61. ACCOUNTS OF THE SAND CREEK MASSACRE, 1864 CHAPTER FIFTEEN: War and Reconstruction: Limiting the Empire for Liberty 62. THE GOVERNMENT CREATES THE WEST: THE HOMESEAD ACT AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAY ACTS, 1862 63. INVENTING THE RESERVATION: ELDERS REMEMBER THE NAVAJOS'' LONG WALK, 1864-1868 64. EXODUSTERS: OKLAHOMA AND KANSAS 65. WOMEN''S SUFFRAGE, WYOMING, 1870.