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CHAPTER I
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The Westward Movement 1
CHAPTER II
The Indian Frontier 14
CHAPTER III
Iowa and the New Northwest 33
CHAPTER IV
The Santa FÉ Trail 53
CHAPTER V
The Oregon Trail 70
CHAPTER VI
Overland with the Mormons 86
CHAPTER VII
California and the Forty-niners 104
CHAPTER VIII
Kansas and the Indian Frontier 119
CHAPTER IX
"Pike's Peak or Bust!" 138
CHAPTER X
From Arizona to Montana 156
CHAPTER XI
The Overland Mail 174
CHAPTER XII
The Engineers' Frontier 192
CHAPTER XIII
The Union Pacific Railroad 211
CHAPTER XIV
The Plains in the Civil War 225
CHAPTER XV
The Cheyenne War 243
CHAPTER XVI
The Sioux War 264
CHAPTER XVII
The Peace Commission and the Open Way 284
CHAPTER XVIII
Black Kettle's Last Raid 304
CHAPTER XIX
The First of the Railways 324
CHAPTER XX
The New Indian Policy 340
CHAPTER XXI
The Last Stand: Chief Joseph and Sitting Bull 358
CHAPTER XXII
Letting in the Population 372

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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