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Opening the West
- The fur trade
- Claiming the land
- Discovering the land's riches: Lewis and Clark
- Sacajawea (also Sacagawea, Sakakawea)
- The inhabited West
- Founding Astoria
- Trappers map the West
- Topographical engineers
- The Mountain Man Rendezvous
- John Frémont, promoter of the West
- Mapping the inland territories
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As the British colonies on the eastern seaboard...
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- Claiming the Near West: Territorial Expansion to 1812
- Opening the West
- Driving the Indians Westward: Indian Removal to 1840
- Claiming the Far West: Territorial Expansion after 1812
- Trails West
- The Gold Rush
- Winning the West: Indian Wars after 1840
- Westward Expansion and Indian Culture
- The Wild West
- Religion and the West
- Technology and the Making of the West
- The Frontier and American Character
