Wexler, Westward Expansion - An Eyewitness History, Riley, A Place To Grow - Women In The American West

Abstract

Westward Expansion is a part of the Eyewitness History series of Facts on File Press intended as a chronicle of "significant historical events or periods." Volumes in the series present numerous excerpts from a variety of sources, including memoirs, diaries, letters, newspaper articles, official documents-you name it. This volume in the series joins other entries that deal with the French Revolution and Napoleon, the Civil War and Reconstruction, World War I, Women's Suffrage, America's Gilded Age, and Vietnam.