Prologue
Where West Is
Thom Tammaro
Creating Context
The Lure of the Frontier • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: What Were Explorers Seeking?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- First Encounter (journal entry)
- Christopher Columbus
- The Captives (short story)
- Stephen Vincent Benét
- Daniel Boone (poem)
- Arthur Guiterman
- Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (journal entries)
- Meriwether Lewis et al.
Cluster Two: What Were the Effects of Manifest Destiny?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- Manifest Destiny (essay)
- Christina Beck
- A Friend of the Indians (poem)
- Joseph Bruchac
- Tsali of the Cherokees (oral history)
- Norah Roper as told to Alice Marriott
- Touching the Skirts of Heaven (essay)
- Mary Moore
- The Courtship (poem)
- George Ella Lyon
- End of the Trail (short story)
- Jim Kjelgaard
Cluster Three: Who Were the People of the Frontier?
Thinking Skill: Summarizing
- Gold Rush! (newspaper articles)
- Anonymous
- Levi’s (letter)
- Jacob W. Davis
- Boomers and Sooners (eyewitness account)
- William W. Howard
- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (short story)
- Stephen Crane
- Wild West (poem)
- Robert Boylan
Cluster Four: Thinking on Your Own
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- The High Desert (biography)
- From The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe
- At the Electronic Frontier (poem)
- Miguel Algarín
- Voyage to the Last Frontier (article)
- Michael D. Lemonick
- The Million-Year Picnic (short story)
- Ray Bradbury
