Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific

Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific

Fremont and the Western Migration

Golay, Michael

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

09/2003

400

Dura

Inglês

9780471377917

0471377910

15 a 20 dias

737

This narrative of the American conquest of the Pacific Coast is a saga of the men and women - missionaries, and traders - who opened up the Oregon country and California to mass settlement, changing the country forever.
List of Illustrations. Author's Note. Prologue: Columbia's River. 1. Ways West. 2. The Road to India. 3. Arcadia. 4. The Missionary Impulse. 5. The Great Migration. 6. Manifest Destiny. Epilogue: The Country of the Setting Sun. Notes. Bibliography. Index.