PowerPoint on the American West - Unit 2 in our U.S. History course.

11. Oneonta Gorge, Mark Hatfield Wilderness. Credit: Michael Matti.

12. Jefferson Park. Wikimedia Commons.

13. Home guard on the Columbia River; Mt. Hood in the background. Courtesy of OSU
Special Collections.

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16. from this point I beheld the grandest and most pleasing
prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in my frount a
boundless Ocean; . . . the Seas rageing with emence wave and
brakeing with great force from the rocks of Cape
Disappointment as far as I coud See to the N. W. . . . the nitches
and points of high land which forms this Corse for a long ways
aded to the inoumerable rocks of emence Sise out at a great
distance from the Shore and against which the Seas brak with
great force gives this Coast a most romantic appearance.

24. [T]he road took us to the most distant
fountain of the waters of the mighty
Missouri in surch of which we have spent so
many toilsome days and wristless nights.
thus far I had accomplished one of those
great objects on which my mind has been
unalterably fixed for many years, judge
then of the pleasure I felt in all[a]ying my
thirst with this pure and ice-cold water …
here I halted a few minutes and rested
myself. two miles below McNeal had
exultingly stood with a foot on each side of
this rivulet and thanked his god that he had
lived to bestride the mighty & heretofore
deemed endless Missouri. after refreshing
ourselves we proceeded on to the top of
the dividing ridge from which I discovered
immence ranges of high mountains still to
the West of us with their tops partially
covered with snow. … here I first tasted the
water of the great Columbia river.2
The Mountains at
Lemhi Pass

29. The Proclamation line of 1863 attempts
to curb westward expansion and
encounters with Indians. Fails once
Jefferson purchases Louisiana and
aggressively pursues the Agrarian
Republic.

35. Pequot
Narragansett
Mochican
Shawnees

36. Tecumseh Pushmataha

44. The “Five Civilized Tribes” of the East.