John’s promise to Castro, 126–27, 128
Klamath Lake Massacre, 137–40
letter to Jessie, 123–24
move to Santa Cruz, 127–28
planning for, 108–9
Sacramento River Valley, 131–33
Oregon, 133–40
planning for, 108–9
Thomas, Sally McDowell, 145–46
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 9–10
Tour on the Prairies, A (Irving), 25–26, 68
Trail of Tears, 12–13
transcontinental railroad, 94, 112–13, 184, 233–34, 272, 301, 346–47
Travis, William, 130
tuberculosis, 22–23
Tulare Lake, 221
Tyler, John, 38–39
Oregon boundary, 40, 68–69
Peacemaker accident of 1844, 88–89
Second Expedition, 62
Texas annexation, 90, 105
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 268–70, 274
Unionist, 9–10, 341
United States Colored Troops (USCT), 343
Upham, Charles, 300–301, 313
Upshur, Abel, 88, 89
Utah Nation, 206–7
Utah Territory, 241, 279–81, 285
Vallejo, Francisca Benicia Carrillo, 155
Vallejo, Mariano G., 117–19
American settlers begin arriving, 117–19
Bear Flag Revolt, 152, 154–59, 228
California Convention, 228, 230
Larkin and, 125
Vallejo Street, San Francisco, 253
Van Buren, Martin, 13, 32, 35, 93–94, 112, 295–96
Victoria, Queen, 266
vigilance committees, 203–4, 259, 320–21
Virginia, 30–31
Virginia Military Institute, 289
voting rights, xxvii, 27, 245
voyageurs, 15
Walker, Isaac, 251–52
War of 1812, 10, 26, 176, 288
Washington, D.C., 21–22, 146–47, 176–77
Washington, George, 88, 288, 314, 352
Washington Globe, 41, 61–62, 104, 295–96
Washington Star, 304, 332
Washington Union, 166, 171, 284, 295–96
Washoe Indians, 76
Watkins, Carleton, 141
Webster, Daniel, 107, 122
Weed, Thurlow, 296–97, 298, 311, 326–27
Weller, John B., 309–10
Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, 167, 244–45
West Point, U.S. Military Academy at, 13–14, 36, 173
Westport, 175, 186–87
Whigs, 35–36, 87, 91, 102–3, 242–43, 256, 263–64, 270, 299
Whig Standard, 93, 103–4
Wide-Awakes, 290–91
Wilbur, Maria E., 244
Willamette Valley, 72
Williams, William “Old Bill Williams,” 196–97, 199, 205, 209
Wilmot, David, 313
Wilmot Proviso, 313
Wind River Range, 52, 67
Fremont Peak, 46, 52–55, 58, 67
Wisconsin, 232, 251
women’s suffrage, 318–19, 324, 334, 351
Seneca Falls Convention, 244–45, 334
Woodville, Richard Caton, 164
wrote, Whitman, 346–47
Wyandot Nation, 275
Year of American Travel, A (Frémont), 348–49
Yerba Buena, 122–23, 217
Battle of, 160
Young, Brigham, 99, 280–81
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About the Author
Steve Inskeep is a cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition, the most widely heard radio program in the United States, and of NPR’s Up First, one of the nation’s most popular podcasts. His reporting has taken him across the United States, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, Pakistan, and China. His search for the full story behind the news has led him to history; he is the author of Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi and Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, both published by Penguin Press.
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