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Primary Historical Documents reflecting on the formations of Regions in the US
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- Letter
from President Thomas Jefferson to Meriweather Lewis 1803
- The
Monroe Doctrine, 1823
- Mexican Constitution of 1824
- Ross,
Alexeander, Journal - Snake Country Expedition, 1824
- Ogden,
Peter Skene, Accounts of an 1825 Expedition into Utah
- The Cherokee Nation v The State of Georgia (1831)
- Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
- Ball,
John, Across the Plains to Oregon, 1832
- Wyeth,
Nathaniel J.: The Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country 1832 - 1834
and Selected Letters.
- Tocqueville and Beaumont on Slavery and the
Indian Problem
- John L. O'Sullivan on Manifest
Destiny, 1839
- Fenimore
Cooper's Literary Offenses
- Polk Declares War on Mexico 1846
- The
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848
- Catlin,
George, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of
North American Indians, 1844.
- The
Whalers' Song (ca. 1845)
- Donner
Party logs 1846-1847
- The
Leg I Left Behind Me (1848)
- Parkman,
Francis, The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain
Life, 1849
- Burning
of the Steamship City of Newark (1855)
- Frederick
Law Olmsted, A Journey in the Seaboard States, 1856
- Chief
Seattle's 1854 Speech
- Seward's
Alaska Treaty with Russia, March 30, 1867
- The
Little Sod Shanty On My Claim
- John
Wesley Powell, Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and
Its Tributaries Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872
Fur trade
- William
H. Ashley's 1825 Papers
- A Narrative of Colonel
Robert Campbell's Experiences in the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade from 1825 to
1835
- The
Rocky Mountain Letters of Robert Campbell.
- Life in
the Rocky Mountains, a Diary of Wanderings on the Sources of the Rivers
Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado, 1830-1835, by Warren Angus Ferris.
- Narrative
of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard, fur trader and trapper, 1831-1836;
written by himself
- Memoranda:
Travels in the Teritory of Missourie, by Robert Newell
- Rocky
Mountain Letters of Daniel T. Potts
- Journal
of a Trapper, by Osborne Russell
- Overland
Diary of Wilson Price Hunt
- 1809
Journal of Dr. Thomas
- The
Journals of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth's Expeditions to the Oregon Country
1832 - 1834 and Selected Letters.
- Oregon,
or a Short History of a Long Journey, by John B. Wyeth
- Journal
of Alexander Ross - Snake Country Expedition, 1824
- Peter Skene
Ogden's Snake Country Journals
- Journals of
John Work, Chief Trader, Hudsons Bay Co.
- Across
the Rockies to the Columbia, by John Kirk Townsend
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