C ALL TO F REEDOM HOLT HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON Beginnings to 1877 1 Expanding the West (1790–1850) Section 1: The Spanish West and Southwest Section.
Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e Chapter Sixteen: The Conquest of the Far West.
United States History 1865 - 1920. Reconstruction 1863 to 1877.
Settling the West In the decades following the Civil War millions of people poured into the trans Mississippi West. They were lured by the promise.