Provides information on the history of Texas, from its earliest days as a frontier province of Spain and Mexico, through its tranformation into its own nation, to its current status as a U.S. state.
Presents a study of California and the Southwest, and discusses Spanish and Mexican occupation of the territory, the Gold Rush, and statehood for California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Discusses the Homestead Act under which the U.S. government gave away millions of acres of free land during the nineteenth century, and examines the challenges of life for pioneers in the American West.
Details the American expansion into Texas and the far west from the late eighteenth- to the mid-nineteenth century, including information on the Oregon Trail, the war with Mexico, and the California gold rush.
