Western Expansion
Background and Context -- HOLLIS Subject Terms -- Periodical Articles -- Document Collections
Historical dictionary of the Jacksonian era and Manifest Destiny, by Mark R. Cheathem and Terry Corps. Second ed. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, 534 pages
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text (1st ed. 2006)
The settlement of America: encyclopedia of westward expansion from Jamestown to the closing of the frontier, ed. by James A. Crutchfield, Candy Moulton, Terry A. Del Bene. Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, 2011. 2 v.
HOLLIS Record
Internet Archive Full Text (vol. 1 only)
- Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
- Manifest Destiny
- United States -- Territorial expansion
- West (U.S.)
For Newspapers, see the Guide to Newspapers and Newspaper Indexes
Frontier Life: Borderlands, Settlement and Colonial Encounters
The American West offers sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (1722-1939) offers manuscripts, ephemera (trade cards, wanted posters, photographs, claim certificates, advertisements, etc.), maps, and printed books.
Overland Journeys: Travels in the West, 1800-1880
Territorial Papers of the United States (1764-1953) offers archival records concerning the territorial administration of the American West and Alaska.