| PAGE | | Beginnings of the Westward Movement | S. E. Forman | 3 | | The Settlement of the West | Emerson Hough | 14 | | The Pony Express | W. F. Bailey | 46 | | Early Western Steamboating | Archer B. Hulbert | 56 | | George Rogers Clark | TheodoreRoosevelt | 61 | | Boone's Wilderness Road | Archer B. Hulbert | 69 | | Daniel Boone | Theodore Roosevelt | 75 | | Pioneer Farming | Morris Birkbeck | 82 | | A Pioneer Boyhood | James B. Pond | 88 | | "The Plains Across" | Noah Brooks | 103 | | The First Emigrant Train to California | John Bidwell | 119 | | RÉsumÉ of FrÉmont's Expeditions | M. N. O. | 140 | | Rough Times in Rough Places | C. G. McGehee | 151 | | Kit Carson | Charles M. Harvey | 163 | | The Macmonnies Pioneer Monument for Denver | 173 | | The Discovery of Gold in California | John S. Hittell | 175 | | Pioneer Mining | E. G. Waife | 192 | | The Great Northwest | E. V. Smalley | 199 | | The Great Southwest | Ray S. Baker | 214 | | The Desert | Ray S. Baker | 223 | Acknowledgment is made of the courtesy of Archer B. Hulbert in granting permission to use the articles on "Early Western Steamboating," and "Boone's Wilderness Road," from his book "Historic Highways."
THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT PEOPLING THE WEST From Europe's proud, despotic shores
Hither the stranger takes his way,
And in our new-found world explores
A happier soil, a milder sway,
Where no proud despot holds him down,
No slaves insult him with a crown.
From these fair plains, these rural seats,
So long concealed, so lately known,
The unsocial Indian far retreats,
To make some other clime his own,
Where other streams, less pleasing, flow,
And darker forests round him grow.
No longer shall your princely flood
From distant lakes be swelled in vain,
No longer through a darksome wood
Advance unnoticed to the main;
Far other ends the heavens decree—
And commerce plans new freights for thee.
While virtue warms the generous breast,
There heaven-born freedom shall reside,
Nor shall the voice of war molest,
Nor Europe's all-aspiring pride—
There Reason shall new laws devise,
And order from confusion rise. Philip Freneau.
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