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Emanuel Leutze’s mural celebrates the western expansion of the United States. A group of pioneers and their train of covered wagons are pictured at the continental divide, looking towards the sunset and the Pacific Ocean. The border depicts vignettes…

Redefined by territorial expansion in the mid-1800s, the boundary of the American West shifted from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, fueled largely by exploration and emigration along the Oregon Trail, among others. Over the course of…

The United States army escorting a wagon trian headed west.

Image of a middle-aged Jane Cazneau, including two of her book covers, from The Queen of Islands and King of Rivers (1850), and The Eagle Pass, or Life on the Border (1852) Also included is the cover of a Cazneau biography, by Linda Hudson, entitled…