Problems associated with expansion (1800-1850):

 

 

Selected Works of Thomas Jefferson:

Jefferson's letter to Meriwether Lewis (1803): http://www.mt.net/~rojomo/landc.htm

Miscellaneous Papers:

John Ball, Autobiography (excerpt) "Across the Plains to Oregon and the Return Home by Cape Horn," 1832-1835

Nathaniel Wyeth, Journals of Expeditions to the Oregon Country (1831-1836) (excerpts):

William Barret Travis, Letter from the commandancy of the Alamo (1836):

George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians (1844)

 

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