LOW QUANTITY For almost one hundred years, from the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the turn of the twentieth century, America expanded westward to the Pacific Ocean, exploring new territory, creating new towns and cities, discovering the nation's vast natural resources, and acquiring new communications and transportation technologies. The men and women who helped our nation to expand so extensively are the subjects of this volume. Included here are memoirs, letters, newspaper accounts, government documents and graphics relating to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Zebulon Pike, trappers and traders, the early pioneers who traveled the Oregon Trail, the '49ers of gold rush fame, the Mormons seeking the promised land, the men who participated in the Pony Express, and those who built America's first transcontinental railroad. JoAnne Weisman Deitch 2000, 6.25" x 9.25", paper, index, 55 pp.ISBN: 9781579600648 111-D0064
