The Settlement of America

Abert, James William (1820-1897)

Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)

Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)

Adobe Walls, Battles of

Alamance, Battle of

Alamo, The

Alaska Purchase (1867)

Allison Commission

American Fur Company

American Horse (1840-1908)

Apache

Arapaho

Arikara

Arikara War

Armijo, Manuel (c. 1792-1853)

Army of the West

Ashley, William Henry (c. 1778-1838)

Astor, John Jacob (1763-1848)

Astoria

Atkinson, Henry (1782-1841)

Attacullaculla (c. 1712-1778)

Audubon, John James (1785-1851)

Austin, Moses (1761-1821)

Austin, Stephen F. (1793-1836)

Baker, James (1818—1898)

Barbed Wire

Bartlett, John Russell (1805—1886)

Beale Wagon Road

Bear Flag Revolt

Beaver

Becknell, William (c. 1787—1856)

Beckwourth, James P. (1798—1866)

Bent, St. Vrain & Company

Bent Brothers

Benton, Thomas Hart (1782—1858)

Bent's Fort

Bidwell, John (1819—1900)

Billings, Frederick (1823—1890)

Bison, American

Black Hawk (1767—1838)

Black Hawk War (1832)

Black Hills Expeditions

Black Kettle (c. 1803—1868)

Blackfoot

Blue Water Creek, Battle of

Bodmer, Karl (1809—1893)

Bonneville, Benjamin Louis (1796—1878)

Boone, Daniel (1734—1820)

Boonesborough, Kentucky

Boudinot, Elias (1802—1839)

Boundary Commissions

Bowie, James (c. 1796—1836)

Bozeman, John (1835—1867)

Bozeman Trail

Bridger, Jim (1804—1881)

Bridger Trail

Buffalo Soldiers

Burnet, David G. (1788—1870)

Burnett, Peter Hardeman (1807—1895)

Burr, Aaron (1756—1836)

Butterfield Stage

Calhoun, John C. (1782—1850)

California, Conquest of

California Trail

Campbell, Robert (1804—1879)

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Carrington Family

Carson, Kit (1809—1868)

Cashman, Nellie (c. 1850—1925)

Catlin, George (1796—1872)

Cattle Brands

Cattle Frontier

Central Pacific Railroad

Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste (1804—1866)

Charbonneau, Toussaint (1759—1840)

Cherokee

Cherokee Trail

Cherokee Wars

Cheyenne

Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail

Chickasaw

Chief Joseph (1840—1904)

Chinese Immigration

Chisholm Trail

Chivington, John M. (1821—1894)

Choctaw

Chouteau Family

Chuck Wagons

Cimarron Cutoff See Santa Fe Trail

Clark, William (1770—1838)

Clay, Henry (1777—1852)

Clyman, James (1792—1881)

Cochise (Cheis) (c. 1810—1874)

Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill) (1846—1917)

Colter, John (c. 1775—1813)

Comanche

Compromise of 1850

Conestoga Wagon

Cooke, Jay (1821—1905)

Cooke, Philip St. George (1809—1895)

Cordoba, Treaty of (1821)

Corps of Topographical Engineers

Cox, Ross (1793—1853)

Crazy Horse (1840—1877)

Creek

Creek Wars

Crockett, Davy (1786—1836)

Crook, George (1829—1890)

Crooks, Ramsay (1787—1859)

Crow

Cumberland Gap

Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (1842—1933)

Custer, George Armstrong (1839—1876)

Custer Expedition

Davis, Jefferson (1808—1889)

Dawes, Henry L. (1816—1903)

Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

De Smet, Pierre-Jean (1801—1873)

Denver and Rio Grande Railroad

Disease

Doak's Stand, Treaty of (1820)

Dodge, Henry (1782—1867)

Donation Land Claim Act (1850)

Doniphan, Alexander William (1808—1887)

Donner Party

Douglas, Stephen A. (1813—1861)

Drouillard, George (c. 1775—1810)

Dull Knife (1810—1883)

Dunbar-Hunter and Freeman-Custis Expeditions

Duniway, Abigail Scott (1834—1915)

Eastman, Seth (1808—1875), and Mary Eastman (1818—1877)

Elections, Presidential

Emigration Societies

Emory, William H. (1811—1887)

Empresario System

End-of-Track Towns

Factory System

Fallen Timbers, Battle of

Fannin, James Walker (1804—1836)

Fetterman Massacre See Red Cloud's War

Filibusters

Firearms

Fitzpatrick, Thomas “Broken Hand” (1799—1854)

Flathead

Fontenelle, Lucien (c. 1800—1840)

Forks of the Ohio

Fort Benton

Fort Bridger

Fort Clatsop

Fort Dilts

Fort Hall

Fort Jackson, Treaty of (1814)

Fort Kearny (Nebraska)

Fort Laramie

Fort Laramie, Treaty of (1868)

Fort Leavenworth

Fort Mandan

Fort Osage

Fort Phil Kearny (Wyoming)

Fort Robinson

Fort Snelling

Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1768)

Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1784)

Fort Union (New Mexico)

Fort Union (North Dakota)

Fort Vancouver

Fort Wise, Treaty of (1861)

Forts and Fortification

Forty-Niners

Fraser, Simon (1776—1862)

Fredonian Rebellion

Frémont, John C. (1813—1890)

Frontier Theory

Gadsden Purchase (1853)

Gall (c. 1840—1894)

Garrard, Hector Lewis (1829—1887)

Gass, Patrick (1771—1870)

Geronimo (c. 1823—1909)

Ghost Dance

Glass, Hugh (c. 1780—1833)

Glenn-Fowler Expedition

Glidden, Joseph (1813—1906)

Goliad, Battle of

“Gone to Texas”

Goodnight, Charles (1836—1929)

Goodnight-Loving Trail

Graduation Act (1854)

Grant, Ulysses S. (1822—1885)

Grattan Massacre

Gray, Robert (1755—1806)

Great American Desert

Greeley, Horace (1811—1872)

Green River

Greenville, Treaty of (1795)

Gregg, Josiah (1806—1850)

Grinnell, George Bird (1849—1938)

Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848)

Gwin, William McKendree (1805—1885)

Harney, William S. (1800—1889)

Harrison, William Henry (1773—1841)

Hayden, Ferdinand (1828—1887)

Hayden Survey

Hayfield Fight See Red Cloud's War

Heap, Gwinn Harris (1817—1887)

Henry, Andrew (c. 1770s—1832)

Hidatsa

Hide Hunters

Holladay, Ben (1819—1887)

Holmes, William Henry (1846—1933)

Homestead Act (1862)

Hopewell, Treaty of (1785)

Hopi

Horse Creek Treaty (1851)

Houston, Sam (1793—1863)

Howard, Oliver O. (1830—1909)

Hudson's Bay Company

Hunt, Wilson Price (1783—1842)

Independence, Missouri

Indian Captivity

Indian Policy

Indian Removal Act (1830)

Jackson, Andrew (1767—1845)

Jackson, David E. (1788—1837)

Jackson, William Henry (1843—1942)

Jackson's Indian Policy

Jefferson, Thomas (1743—1826)

Jefferson Barracks

Johnson County War

Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803—1862)

Jones, Thomas ap Catesby (1790—1858)

Judah, Theodore D. (1826—1863)

Judah Survey

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)

Kearny, Stephen Watts (1794—1848)

Keil, William (1812—1877)

Kern Brothers

King, Clarence (1842—1901)

Kiowa

Laclède Liguest, Pierre de (1729—1778)

Lakota

Lamar, Mirabeau B. (1798—1859)

Land Speculation Companies

Lander, Frederick W. (1821—1862)

Lander Cutoff

Larkin, Thomas Oliver (1802—1858)

Leavenworth, Henry (1783—1834)

Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express

Leonard, Zenas (1809—1857)

Lewis, Meriwether (1774—1809)

Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lisa, Manuel (1772—1820)

Little Bighorn, Battle of the See Custer, George Armstrong

Little Turtle (c. 1752—1812)

Long, Stephen H. (1784—1864)

Long Expedition

Long Hunters

Long Walk

Louisiana Purchase (1803)

Louisiana Territory

Loving, Oliver (1812—1867)

Lozen (late 1840s—1886)

MacKenzie, Donald (1783—1851)

Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell (1840—1888)

Magoffin, James Wiley (1799—1868)

Mandan

Mangas Coloradas (c. 1793—1863)

Manifest Destiny

Manypenny, George W. (1808—1892)

Marcy, Randolph Barnes (1812—1887)

Martínez, Antonio José (1793—1867)

Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philip (1782—1867)

Maxwell Land Grant Company

McKenney, Thomas L. (1785—1859)

McKenzie, Kenneth (1797—1861)

McLoughlin, John (1784—1857)

Mears, Otto (1840—1931)

Medicine Lodge Creek, Treaty of (1867)

Meek, Joseph L. (1810—1875)

Meeker, Nathan (1817—1879)

Meeker Massacre

Mercer, Asa (1839—1917)

Mexican Boundary Survey

Mexican Land Grants

Mexican-American War

Mier Expedition

Miles, Nelson A. (1839—1925)

Miller, Alfred Jacob (1810—1874)

Mining Industry

Missouri Compromise (1820)

Missouri Fur Company

Monroe, James (1758—1831)

Moran, Thomas (1837—1926)

Mormon Battalion

Mormon Church

Mormon Trail

Morris, Esther Hobart (1814—1902)

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Mullan, John (1830—1909)

Mullan Road

Nashville

Natchez Trace

Navajo

New Echota, Treaty of (1835)

New Mexico, Conquest of See Army of the West

Nez Percé

Nicolett, Joseph Nicolas (1786—1843)

North, Frank Joshua (1840—1885)

North, Luther Hedden (1846—1935)

North West Company

Northern Pacific Railroad

Oatman Girls' Captivity

O'Fallon, Benjamin (1793—1842)

Ogden, Peter Skene (1790—1854)

Omaha

Open Range

Ordway, John (c. 1775—1817)

Oregon Question

Oregon Trail

Osage

O'Sullivan, John L. (1813—1895)

Ouray (c. 1833—1880)

Overland Mail

Overland Telegraph Company

Overland Trail

Pacific Railway Act (1862)

Pacific Railway Act (1864)

Panic of 1873

Paris, Treaty of (1763)

Parker, Cynthia Ann (1826—1870)

Parker, Quanah (mid-1840s—1911)

Pattie, James Ohio (c. 1804—1833?)

Pawnee

Pawnee Scouts

Perpetual Emigrating Fund

Picotte, Susan La Flesche (1865—1915)

Pierre's Hole, Battle of

Pike, Zebulon M. (1779—1813)

Pike Expedition

Pilcher, Joshua (1790—1843)

Point Pleasant, Battle of

Polk, James K. (1795—1849)

Pontiac (c. 1720—1769)

Pony Express

Powder River Expedition (1865)

Powder River Expedition (1876)

Powell, John Wesley (1834—1902)

Prairie du Chien, Treaties of (1825, 1829, 1830)

Prairie Schooner

Preemption Act (1841)

Preuss, Charles (1803—1854)

Price, Sterling (1809—1867)

Proclamation of 1763

Provost, Étienne (1785—1850)

Pueblo

Railroad Land Grants

Railroad Surveys, Transcontinental

Red Bird (1788—1828)

Red Cloud (1821—1909)

Red Cloud's War

Red River War See Parker, Quanah

Rendezvous

Riley, Bennet (1787—1853)

Robidoux Family

Rocky Mountain Fur Company

Roman Nose (c. 1823—1868)

Rose, Edward (?—1832)

Ross, Alexander (1783—1856)

Russell, Majors, and Waddell

Russell, Osborne (1814—1892)

Ruxton, George A.F. (1821—1848)

Sacagawea (c. 1790—1812?)

San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800)

San Jacinto, Battle of

San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795)

Sand Creek Massacre

Santa Anna, Antonio López de (1794—1876)

Santa Fe Trail

Santee Sioux

Santee Sioux Uprising

Sappington, John (1776—1856)

Sarpy, Peter A. (1805—1865)

Satanta (c. 1815—1878)

Sauk

Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793—1864)

Scott, Winfield (1786—1866)

Shawnee

Sheridan, Philip H. (1831—1888)

Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820—1891)

Shoshone

Simpson, George (c. 1787—1860)

Sioux

Sitting Bull (1831—1890)

Sloat, John D. (1781—1867)

Smith, Jackson, & Sublette

Smith, Jedediah (1799—1831)

Smith, Joseph (1805—1844)

Smoky Hill Trail

South Pass

Spalding, Henry H. (1803—1874), and Eliza Hart Spalding (1807—1851)

Spotted Tail (1823—1881)

St. Clair, Arthur (1736—1818)

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Vrain, Cerán (1802—1870)

Stansbury Expedition

Stevens Treaty (1855)

Stockton, Robert Field (1795—1866)

Stuart, Robert (1785—1848)

Sublette Brothers

Summit Springs, Battle of

Sutter, John A. (1803—1880)

Sutter's Fort

Table Rock Treaty (1853)

Taos Revolt

Taylor, Zachary (1784—1850)

Tecumseh (c. 1768—1813)

Territorial System

Texan Santa Fe Expedition

Texas Annexation

Texas Rangers

Texas Revolution and Independence

Texas Trail

Thames, Battle of the

Thief Treaty (1863)

Thompson, David (1770—1857)

Timber Culture Act (1873)

Tools

Trail of Tears

Transportation, Land

Transportation, Water

Travis, William Barret (1809—1836)

Tyler, John (1790—1862)

Union Colony

United States Exploring Expedition

United States Geological Survey

Utah War

Ute

Van Buren, Martin (1782—1862)

Vasquez, Louis (1798—1868)

Victorio (c. 1825—1880)

Vigilantism

Villard, Henry (1835—1900)

Wagon Box Fight See Red Cloud's War

Walker, Joseph R. (1798—1867)

Wallace, William “Bigfoot” (1817—1899)

War of 1812

Warren, Gouverneur Kemble (1830—1882)

Washakie (c. 1800—1900)

Washita Engagement

Watauga Settlements

Watie, Stand (1806—1871)

Watson, Ellen “Cattle Kate” (1861—1889)

Wayne, Anthony (1745—1796)

Weapons See Firearms

Wells, Fargo & Company

Wells, William (1770—1812)

Western Trail

Westport and Westport Landing, Missouri

Whitman, Marcus (1802—1847), and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (1808—1847)

Whitney, Asa (1797—1872)

Whoop-Up Trail

Wilkinson, James (1757—1825)

Williams, William “Old Bill” (1787—1849)

Winnemucca, Sarah (c. 1844—1891)

Wolfskill, William (1798—1866)

Woman Suffrage

Wootton, Richens Lacy “Uncle Dick” (1816—1893)

Wounded Knee

Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis (1802—1856)

Yellowstone Surveying Expeditions

Young, Brigham (1801—1877)

Young, Ewing (c. 1792—1841)

Yuma

Zuni