Contents:

Expansion: opportunities and challenges

1.    The Wild West?

2.    The Geography of North America in 1840

3.    Manifest Destiny, Frontier & US Expansion

4.    The Indigenous Nations

5.    The Sioux - Govt & Warfare

6.    The Sioux - Values & Beliefs

7.    The Sioux - Lifestyle

8.    Going West in the 1840s - Why?

9.    Going West in the 1840s - The Journey

10.    Going West in the 1840s - The 1849 Gold Rush

Conflict and Consolidation

11.    The Mormons - The Mormons Move West

12.    The Mormons - At Salt Lake

13.    The Mormons - Interpretations