ABSTRACT
First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |45 pages
Essays
entry |6 pages
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier
entry |5 pages
Indians
entry |6 pages
The Fur Trade
entry |5 pages
Overland Trails
entry |6 pages
The Military Establishment
entry |5 pages
Gold Rushes
entry |5 pages
Railroads
entry |5 pages
Arts and Letters
letter |471 pages
A-L Entries
letter |23 pages
A
entry |1 pages
Abert, James William (1820-1897)
entry |2 pages
Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848)
entry |1 pages
Adams-Onís Treaty (1819)
entry |2 pages
Adobe Walls, Battles of
entry |2 pages
Alamance, Battle of
entry |3 pages
Alamo, The
entry |2 pages
Alaska Purchase (1867)
entry |1 pages
Allison Commission
entry |2 pages
American Fur Company
entry |2 pages
American Horse (1840-1908)
entry |2 pages
Apache
entry |2 pages
Arapaho
entry |1 pages
Arikara
entry |1 pages
Arikara War
entry |2 pages
Armijo, Manuel (c. 1792-1853)
entry |2 pages
Army of the West
entry |2 pages
Ashley, William Henry (c. 1778-1838)
entry |2 pages
Astor, John Jacob (1763-1848)
entry |2 pages
Astoria
entry |1 pages
Atkinson, Henry (1782-1841)
entry |1 pages
Attacullaculla (c. 1712-1778)
entry |2 pages
Audubon, John James (1785-1851)
entry |2 pages
Austin, Moses (1761-1821)
entry |2 pages
Austin, Stephen F. (1793-1836)
letter |35 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Baker, James (1818—1898)
entry |2 pages
Barbed Wire
entry |2 pages
Bartlett, John Russell (1805—1886)
entry |2 pages
Beale Wagon Road
entry |2 pages
Bear Flag Revolt
entry |2 pages
Beaver
entry |1 pages
Becknell, William (c. 1787—1856)
entry |2 pages
Beckwourth, James P. (1798—1866)
entry |2 pages
Bent, St. Vrain & Company
entry |3 pages
Bent Brothers
entry |2 pages
Benton, Thomas Hart (1782—1858)
entry |2 pages
Bent's Fort
entry |2 pages
Bidwell, John (1819—1900)
entry |1 pages
Billings, Frederick (1823—1890)
entry |2 pages
Bison, American
entry |2 pages
Black Hawk (1767—1838)
entry |2 pages
Black Hawk War (1832)
entry |3 pages
Black Hills Expeditions
entry |2 pages
Black Kettle (c. 1803—1868)
entry |2 pages
Blackfoot
entry |2 pages
Blue Water Creek, Battle of
entry |1 pages
Bodmer, Karl (1809—1893)
entry |2 pages
Bonneville, Benjamin Louis (1796—1878)
entry |2 pages
Boone, Daniel (1734—1820)
entry |2 pages
Boonesborough, Kentucky
entry |1 pages
Boudinot, Elias (1802—1839)
entry |1 pages
Boundary Commissions
entry |2 pages
Bowie, James (c. 1796—1836)
entry |2 pages
Bozeman, John (1835—1867)
entry |2 pages
Bozeman Trail
entry |2 pages
Bridger, Jim (1804—1881)
entry |2 pages
Bridger Trail
entry |2 pages
Buffalo Soldiers
entry |2 pages
Burnet, David G. (1788—1870)
entry |1 pages
Burnett, Peter Hardeman (1807—1895)
entry |2 pages
Burr, Aaron (1756—1836)
entry |2 pages
Butterfield Stage
letter |53 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Calhoun, John C. (1782—1850)
entry |2 pages
California, Conquest of
entry |2 pages
California Trail
entry |1 pages
Campbell, Robert (1804—1879)
entry |2 pages
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
entry |3 pages
Carrington Family
entry |3 pages
Carson, Kit (1809—1868)
entry |1 pages
Cashman, Nellie (c. 1850—1925)
entry |2 pages
Catlin, George (1796—1872)
entry |2 pages
Cattle Brands
entry |2 pages
Cattle Frontier
entry |1 pages
Central Pacific Railroad
entry |1 pages
Charbonneau, Jean Baptiste (1804—1866)
entry |2 pages
Charbonneau, Toussaint (1759—1840)
entry |2 pages
Cherokee
entry |1 pages
Cherokee Trail
entry |1 pages
Cherokee Wars
entry |2 pages
Cheyenne
entry |3 pages
Cheyenne-Deadwood Trail
entry |1 pages
Chickasaw
entry |2 pages
Chief Joseph (1840—1904)
entry |2 pages
Chinese Immigration
entry |2 pages
Chisholm Trail
entry |1 pages
Chivington, John M. (1821—1894)
entry |2 pages
Choctaw
entry |3 pages
Chouteau Family
entry |2 pages
Chuck Wagons
entry |1 pages
Cimarron Cutoff See Santa Fe Trail
entry |1 pages
Clark, William (1770—1838)
entry |2 pages
Clay, Henry (1777—1852)
entry |1 pages
Clyman, James (1792—1881)
entry |2 pages
Cochise (Cheis) (c. 1810—1874)
entry |2 pages
Cody, William Frederick (Buffalo Bill) (1846—1917)
entry |1 pages
Colter, John (c. 1775—1813)
entry |2 pages
Comanche
entry |2 pages
Compromise of 1850
entry |3 pages
Conestoga Wagon
entry |2 pages
Cooke, Jay (1821—1905)
entry |1 pages
Cooke, Philip St. George (1809—1895)
entry |2 pages
Cordoba, Treaty of (1821)
entry |2 pages
Corps of Topographical Engineers
entry |2 pages
Cox, Ross (1793—1853)
entry |2 pages
Crazy Horse (1840—1877)
entry |2 pages
Creek
entry |2 pages
Creek Wars
entry |2 pages
Crockett, Davy (1786—1836)
entry |2 pages
Crook, George (1829—1890)
entry |2 pages
Crooks, Ramsay (1787—1859)
entry |2 pages
Crow
entry |1 pages
Cumberland Gap
entry |1 pages
Custer, Elizabeth Bacon (1842—1933)
entry |3 pages
Custer, George Armstrong (1839—1876)
entry |2 pages
Custer Expedition
letter |15 pages
D
entry |1 pages
Davis, Jefferson (1808—1889)
entry |1 pages
Dawes, Henry L. (1816—1903)
entry |2 pages
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
entry |2 pages
De Smet, Pierre-Jean (1801—1873)
entry |1 pages
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
entry |2 pages
Disease
entry |2 pages
Doak's Stand, Treaty of (1820)
entry |2 pages
Dodge, Henry (1782—1867)
entry |1 pages
Donation Land Claim Act (1850)
entry |2 pages
Doniphan, Alexander William (1808—1887)
entry |2 pages
Donner Party
entry |2 pages
Douglas, Stephen A. (1813—1861)
entry |2 pages
Drouillard, George (c. 1775—1810)
entry |2 pages
Dull Knife (1810—1883)
entry |2 pages
Dunbar-Hunter and Freeman-Custis Expeditions
entry |2 pages
Duniway, Abigail Scott (1834—1915)
letter |10 pages
E
entry |2 pages
Eastman, Seth (1808—1875), and Mary Eastman (1818—1877)
entry |4 pages
Elections, Presidential
entry |2 pages
Emigration Societies
entry |2 pages
Emory, William H. (1811—1887)
entry |2 pages
Empresario System
entry |2 pages
End-of-Track Towns
letter |39 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Factory System
entry |1 pages
Fallen Timbers, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Fannin, James Walker (1804—1836)
entry |1 pages
Fetterman Massacre See Red Cloud's War
entry |1 pages
Filibusters
entry |2 pages
Firearms
entry |2 pages
Fitzpatrick, Thomas “Broken Hand” (1799—1854)
entry |2 pages
Flathead
entry |1 pages
Fontenelle, Lucien (c. 1800—1840)
entry |2 pages
Forks of the Ohio
entry |2 pages
Fort Benton
entry |2 pages
Fort Bridger
entry |2 pages
Fort Clatsop
entry |2 pages
Fort Dilts
entry |2 pages
Fort Hall
entry |2 pages
Fort Jackson, Treaty of (1814)
entry |2 pages
Fort Kearny (Nebraska)
entry |3 pages
Fort Laramie
entry |2 pages
Fort Laramie, Treaty of (1868)
entry |3 pages
Fort Leavenworth
entry |2 pages
Fort Mandan
entry |2 pages
Fort Osage
entry |1 pages
Fort Phil Kearny (Wyoming)
entry |2 pages
Fort Robinson
entry |2 pages
Fort Snelling
entry |2 pages
Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1768)
entry |1 pages
Fort Stanwix, Treaty of (1784)
entry |2 pages
Fort Union (New Mexico)
entry |2 pages
Fort Union (North Dakota)
entry |3 pages
Fort Vancouver
entry |2 pages
Fort Wise, Treaty of (1861)
entry |3 pages
Forts and Fortification
entry |2 pages
Forty-Niners
entry |1 pages
Fraser, Simon (1776—1862)
entry |2 pages
Fredonian Rebellion
entry |3 pages
Frémont, John C. (1813—1890)
entry |1 pages
Frontier Theory
letter |23 pages
G
entry |1 pages
Gadsden Purchase (1853)
entry |2 pages
Gall (c. 1840—1894)
entry |2 pages
Garrard, Hector Lewis (1829—1887)
entry |2 pages
Gass, Patrick (1771—1870)
entry |2 pages
Geronimo (c. 1823—1909)
entry |3 pages
Ghost Dance
entry |1 pages
Glass, Hugh (c. 1780—1833)
entry |2 pages
Glenn-Fowler Expedition
entry |2 pages
Glidden, Joseph (1813—1906)
entry |2 pages
Goliad, Battle of
entry |1 pages
“Gone to Texas”
entry |2 pages
Goodnight, Charles (1836—1929)
entry |2 pages
Goodnight-Loving Trail
entry |1 pages
Graduation Act (1854)
entry |2 pages
Grant, Ulysses S. (1822—1885)
entry |2 pages
Grattan Massacre
entry |2 pages
Gray, Robert (1755—1806)
entry |2 pages
Great American Desert
entry |2 pages
Greeley, Horace (1811—1872)
entry |2 pages
Green River
entry |2 pages
Greenville, Treaty of (1795)
entry |2 pages
Gregg, Josiah (1806—1850)
entry |1 pages
Grinnell, George Bird (1849—1938)
entry |2 pages
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of (1848)
entry |2 pages
Gwin, William McKendree (1805—1885)
letter |18 pages
H
entry |2 pages
Harney, William S. (1800—1889)
entry |2 pages
Harrison, William Henry (1773—1841)
entry |1 pages
Hayden, Ferdinand (1828—1887)
entry |2 pages
Hayden Survey
entry |1 pages
Hayfield Fight See Red Cloud's War
entry |1 pages
Heap, Gwinn Harris (1817—1887)
entry |1 pages
Henry, Andrew (c. 1770s—1832)
entry |2 pages
Hidatsa
entry |3 pages
Hide Hunters
entry |1 pages
Holladay, Ben (1819—1887)
entry |1 pages
Holmes, William Henry (1846—1933)
entry |3 pages
Homestead Act (1862)
entry |1 pages
Hopewell, Treaty of (1785)
entry |2 pages
Hopi
entry |2 pages
Horse Creek Treaty (1851)
entry |2 pages
Houston, Sam (1793—1863)
entry |2 pages
Howard, Oliver O. (1830—1909)
entry |2 pages
Hudson's Bay Company
entry |2 pages
Hunt, Wilson Price (1783—1842)
letter |7 pages
I
entry |2 pages
Independence, Missouri
entry |2 pages
Indian Captivity
entry |4 pages
Indian Policy
entry |2 pages
Indian Removal Act (1830)
letter |11 pages
J
entry |2 pages
Jackson, Andrew (1767—1845)
entry |1 pages
Jackson, David E. (1788—1837)
entry |2 pages
Jackson, William Henry (1843—1942)
entry |2 pages
Jackson's Indian Policy
entry |1 pages
Jefferson, Thomas (1743—1826)
entry |1 pages
Jefferson Barracks
entry |2 pages
Johnson County War
entry |3 pages
Johnston, Albert Sidney (1803—1862)
entry |1 pages
Jones, Thomas ap Catesby (1790—1858)
entry |2 pages
Judah, Theodore D. (1826—1863)
entry |2 pages
Judah Survey
letter |8 pages
K
entry |2 pages
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
entry |2 pages
Kearny, Stephen Watts (1794—1848)
entry |2 pages
Keil, William (1812—1877)
entry |2 pages
Kern Brothers
entry |3 pages
King, Clarence (1842—1901)
entry |2 pages
Kiowa
letter |21 pages
L
entry |2 pages
Laclède Liguest, Pierre de (1729—1778)
entry |2 pages
Lakota
entry |2 pages
Lamar, Mirabeau B. (1798—1859)
entry |2 pages
Land Speculation Companies
entry |1 pages
Lander, Frederick W. (1821—1862)
entry |1 pages
Lander Cutoff
entry |2 pages
Larkin, Thomas Oliver (1802—1858)
entry |2 pages
Leavenworth, Henry (1783—1834)
entry |1 pages
Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express
entry |1 pages
Leonard, Zenas (1809—1857)
entry |2 pages
Lewis, Meriwether (1774—1809)
entry |3 pages
Lewis and Clark Expedition
entry |1 pages
Lisa, Manuel (1772—1820)
entry |1 pages
Little Bighorn, Battle of the See Custer, George Armstrong
entry |1 pages
Little Turtle (c. 1752—1812)
entry |2 pages
Long, Stephen H. (1784—1864)
entry |3 pages
Long Expedition
entry |1 pages
Long Hunters
entry |3 pages
Long Walk
entry |1 pages
Louisiana Purchase (1803)
entry |2 pages
Louisiana Territory
entry |2 pages
Loving, Oliver (1812—1867)
entry |2 pages
Lozen (late 1840s—1886)
letter |36 pages
M
entry |1 pages
MacKenzie, Donald (1783—1851)
entry |2 pages
Mackenzie, Ranald Slidell (1840—1888)
entry |2 pages
Magoffin, James Wiley (1799—1868)
entry |2 pages
Mandan
entry |2 pages
Mangas Coloradas (c. 1793—1863)
entry |3 pages
Manifest Destiny
entry |1 pages
Manypenny, George W. (1808—1892)
entry |2 pages
Marcy, Randolph Barnes (1812—1887)
entry |2 pages
Martínez, Antonio José (1793—1867)
entry |2 pages
Maximilian, Prince Alexander Philip (1782—1867)
entry |2 pages
Maxwell Land Grant Company
entry |1 pages
McKenney, Thomas L. (1785—1859)
entry |2 pages
McKenzie, Kenneth (1797—1861)
entry |2 pages
McLoughlin, John (1784—1857)
entry |2 pages
Mears, Otto (1840—1931)
entry |2 pages
Medicine Lodge Creek, Treaty of (1867)
entry |2 pages
Meek, Joseph L. (1810—1875)
entry |2 pages
Meeker, Nathan (1817—1879)
entry |2 pages
Meeker Massacre
entry |1 pages
Mercer, Asa (1839—1917)
entry |2 pages
Mexican Boundary Survey
entry |1 pages
Mexican Land Grants
entry |3 pages
Mexican-American War
entry |2 pages
Mier Expedition
entry |2 pages
Miles, Nelson A. (1839—1925)
entry |1 pages
Miller, Alfred Jacob (1810—1874)
entry |3 pages
Mining Industry
entry |2 pages
Missouri Compromise (1820)
entry |2 pages
Missouri Fur Company
entry |2 pages
Monroe, James (1758—1831)
entry |2 pages
Moran, Thomas (1837—1926)
entry |2 pages
Mormon Battalion
entry |2 pages
Mormon Church
entry |2 pages
Mormon Trail
entry |2 pages
Morris, Esther Hobart (1814—1902)
entry |2 pages
Mountain Meadows Massacre
entry |2 pages
Mullan, John (1830—1909)
entry |1 pages
Mullan Road
letter |11 pages
N
entry |2 pages
Nashville
entry |2 pages
Natchez Trace
entry |2 pages
Navajo
entry |2 pages
New Echota, Treaty of (1835)
entry |1 pages
New Mexico, Conquest of See Army of the West
entry |1 pages
Nez Percé
entry |2 pages
Nicolett, Joseph Nicolas (1786—1843)
entry |2 pages
North, Frank Joshua (1840—1885)
entry |2 pages
North, Luther Hedden (1846—1935)
entry |2 pages
North West Company
entry |2 pages
Northern Pacific Railroad
letter |13 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Oatman Girls' Captivity
entry |1 pages
O'Fallon, Benjamin (1793—1842)
entry |2 pages
Ogden, Peter Skene (1790—1854)
entry |2 pages
Omaha
entry |2 pages
Open Range
entry |2 pages
Ordway, John (c. 1775—1817)
entry |2 pages
Oregon Question
entry |2 pages
Oregon Trail
entry |2 pages
Osage
entry |1 pages
O'Sullivan, John L. (1813—1895)
entry |2 pages
Ouray (c. 1833—1880)
entry |3 pages
Overland Mail
entry |2 pages
Overland Telegraph Company
entry |1 pages
Overland Trail
letter |29 pages
P
entry |2 pages
Pacific Railway Act (1862)
entry |1 pages
Pacific Railway Act (1864)
entry |1 pages
Panic of 1873
entry |2 pages
Paris, Treaty of (1763)
entry |2 pages
Parker, Cynthia Ann (1826—1870)
entry |2 pages
Parker, Quanah (mid-1840s—1911)
entry |1 pages
Pattie, James Ohio (c. 1804—1833?)
entry |3 pages
Pawnee
entry |1 pages
Pawnee Scouts
entry |2 pages
Perpetual Emigrating Fund
entry |2 pages
Picotte, Susan La Flesche (1865—1915)
entry |2 pages
Pierre's Hole, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Pike, Zebulon M. (1779—1813)
entry |2 pages
Pike Expedition
entry |2 pages
Pilcher, Joshua (1790—1843)
entry |2 pages
Point Pleasant, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Polk, James K. (1795—1849)
entry |2 pages
Pontiac (c. 1720—1769)
entry |3 pages
Pony Express
entry |2 pages
Powder River Expedition (1865)
entry |2 pages
Powder River Expedition (1876)
entry |1 pages
Powell, John Wesley (1834—1902)
entry |2 pages
Prairie du Chien, Treaties of (1825, 1829, 1830)
entry |2 pages
Prairie Schooner
entry |1 pages
Preemption Act (1841)
entry |1 pages
Preuss, Charles (1803—1854)
entry |2 pages
Price, Sterling (1809—1867)
entry |2 pages
Proclamation of 1763
entry |1 pages
Provost, Étienne (1785—1850)
entry |2 pages
Pueblo
letter |15 pages
R
entry |2 pages
Railroad Land Grants
entry |2 pages
Railroad Surveys, Transcontinental
entry |2 pages
Red Bird (1788—1828)
entry |2 pages
Red Cloud (1821—1909)
entry |3 pages
Red Cloud's War
entry |1 pages
Red River War See Parker, Quanah
entry |1 pages
Rendezvous
entry |1 pages
Riley, Bennet (1787—1853)
entry |2 pages
Robidoux Family
entry |2 pages
Rocky Mountain Fur Company
entry |1 pages
Roman Nose (c. 1823—1868)
entry |2 pages
Rose, Edward (?—1832)
entry |2 pages
Ross, Alexander (1783—1856)
entry |2 pages
Russell, Majors, and Waddell
entry |2 pages
Russell, Osborne (1814—1892)
entry |1 pages
Ruxton, George A.F. (1821—1848)
letter |40 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sacagawea (c. 1790—1812?)
entry |1 pages
San Ildefonso, Treaty of (1800)
entry |2 pages
San Jacinto, Battle of
entry |2 pages
San Lorenzo, Treaty of (1795)
entry |2 pages
Sand Creek Massacre
entry |2 pages
Santa Anna, Antonio López de (1794—1876)
entry |3 pages
Santa Fe Trail
entry |1 pages
Santee Sioux
entry |2 pages
Santee Sioux Uprising
entry |2 pages
Sappington, John (1776—1856)
entry |2 pages
Sarpy, Peter A. (1805—1865)
entry |2 pages
Satanta (c. 1815—1878)
entry |1 pages
Sauk
entry |2 pages
Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1793—1864)
entry |2 pages
Scott, Winfield (1786—1866)
entry |2 pages
Shawnee
entry |2 pages
Sheridan, Philip H. (1831—1888)
entry |2 pages
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820—1891)
entry |2 pages
Shoshone
entry |1 pages
Simpson, George (c. 1787—1860)
entry |3 pages
Sioux
entry |2 pages
Sitting Bull (1831—1890)
entry |1 pages
Sloat, John D. (1781—1867)
entry |2 pages
Smith, Jackson, & Sublette
entry |2 pages
Smith, Jedediah (1799—1831)
entry |2 pages
Smith, Joseph (1805—1844)
entry |2 pages
Smoky Hill Trail
entry |2 pages
South Pass
entry |2 pages
Spalding, Henry H. (1803—1874), and Eliza Hart Spalding (1807—1851)
entry |2 pages
Spotted Tail (1823—1881)
entry |1 pages
St. Clair, Arthur (1736—1818)
entry |3 pages
St. Louis, Missouri
entry |2 pages
St. Vrain, Cerán (1802—1870)
entry |2 pages
Stansbury Expedition
entry |2 pages
Stevens Treaty (1855)
entry |1 pages
Stockton, Robert Field (1795—1866)
entry |1 pages
Stuart, Robert (1785—1848)
entry |2 pages
Sublette Brothers
entry |1 pages
Summit Springs, Battle of
entry |2 pages
Sutter, John A. (1803—1880)
entry |2 pages
Sutter's Fort
letter |21 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Table Rock Treaty (1853)
entry |2 pages
Taos Revolt
entry |1 pages
Taylor, Zachary (1784—1850)
entry |2 pages
Tecumseh (c. 1768—1813)
entry |2 pages
Territorial System
entry |2 pages
Texan Santa Fe Expedition
entry |3 pages
Texas Annexation
entry |1 pages
Texas Rangers
entry |3 pages
Texas Revolution and Independence
entry |1 pages
Texas Trail
entry |2 pages
Thames, Battle of the
entry |1 pages
Thief Treaty (1863)
entry |2 pages
Thompson, David (1770—1857)
entry |2 pages
Timber Culture Act (1873)
entry |2 pages
Tools
entry |2 pages
Trail of Tears
entry |2 pages
Transportation, Land
entry |3 pages
Transportation, Water
entry |2 pages
Travis, William Barret (1809—1836)
entry |2 pages
Tyler, John (1790—1862)
letter |6 pages
U
entry |1 pages
Union Colony
entry |1 pages
United States Exploring Expedition
entry |1 pages
United States Geological Survey
entry |2 pages
Utah War
entry |3 pages
Ute
letter |5 pages
V
entry |2 pages
Van Buren, Martin (1782—1862)
entry |1 pages
Vasquez, Louis (1798—1868)
entry |2 pages
Victorio (c. 1825—1880)
entry |3 pages
Vigilantism
entry |1 pages
Villard, Henry (1835—1900)
letter |23 pages
W
entry |1 pages
Wagon Box Fight See Red Cloud's War
entry |1 pages
Walker, Joseph R. (1798—1867)
entry |1 pages
Wallace, William “Bigfoot” (1817—1899)
entry |2 pages
War of 1812
entry |2 pages
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble (1830—1882)
entry |2 pages
Washakie (c. 1800—1900)
entry |2 pages
Washita Engagement
entry |1 pages
Watauga Settlements
entry |1 pages
Watie, Stand (1806—1871)
entry |2 pages
Watson, Ellen “Cattle Kate” (1861—1889)
entry |2 pages
Wayne, Anthony (1745—1796)
entry |1 pages
Weapons See Firearms
entry |1 pages
Wells, Fargo & Company
entry |2 pages
Wells, William (1770—1812)
entry |2 pages
Western Trail
entry |1 pages
Westport and Westport Landing, Missouri
entry |2 pages
Whitman, Marcus (1802—1847), and Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (1808—1847)
entry |2 pages
Whitney, Asa (1797—1872)
entry |2 pages
Whoop-Up Trail
entry |2 pages
Wilkinson, James (1757—1825)
entry |1 pages
Williams, William “Old Bill” (1787—1849)
entry |2 pages
Winnemucca, Sarah (c. 1844—1891)
entry |2 pages
Wolfskill, William (1798—1866)
entry |2 pages
Woman Suffrage
entry |2 pages
Wootton, Richens Lacy “Uncle Dick” (1816—1893)
entry |2 pages
Wounded Knee
entry |2 pages
Wyeth, Nathaniel Jarvis (1802—1856)
letter |5 pages
Y
entry |2 pages
Yellowstone Surveying Expeditions
entry |2 pages
Young, Brigham (1801—1877)
entry |1 pages
Young, Ewing (c. 1792—1841)
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