THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY A series, made up from the best on this subject in THE CENTURY and ST. NICHOLAS, for students of the upper grammar grades and the first year high school. Profusely illustrated. EXPLORERS and SETTLERS THE COLONISTS AND THE REVOLUTION A NEW NATION THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT THE CIVIL WAR THE PROGRESS OF A UNITED PEOPLE =12mo. About 225 pages each.= D. APPLETON-CENTURY CO. [Illustration: From the sculpture by Frederick Mac Monnies. Kit Carson, the Pioneer. See pages 173 and 174.] CENTURY READINGS IN UNITED STATES HISTORY THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT EDITED BY CHARLES L. BARSTOW [Illustration] D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY INCORPORATED _New York_ _London_ COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY THE CENTURY CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO REPRODUCE THIS BOOK, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, IN ANY FORM. 326 PRINTED IN U. S. A. CONTENTS PAGE BEGINNINGS OF THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT _S. E. Forman_ 3 THE SETTLEMENT OF THE WEST _Emerson Hough_ 14 THE PONY EXPRESS _W. F. Bailey_ 46 EARLY WESTERN STEAMBOATING _Archer B. Hulbert_ 56 GEORGE ROGERS CLARK _Theodore Roosevelt_ 61 BOONE'S WILDERNESS ROAD _Archer B. Hulbert_ 69 DANIEL BOONE _Theodore Roosevelt_ 75 PIONEER FARMING _Morris Birkbeck_ 82 A PIONEER BOYHOOD _James B. Pond_ 88 "THE PLAINS ACROSS" _Noah Brooks_ 103 THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA _John Bidwell_ 119 RÉSUMÉ OF FRÉMONT'S EXPEDITIONS _M. N. O._ 140 ROUGH TIMES IN ROUGH PLACES _C. G. McGehee_ 151 KIT CARSON _Charles M. Harvey_ 163 THE MACMONNIES PIONEER MONUMENT FOR DENVER 173 THE DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA _John S. Hittell_ 175 PIONEER MINING _E. G. Waife_ 192 THE GREAT NORTHWEST _E. V. Smalley_ 199 THE GREAT SOUTHWEST _Ray S. Baker_ 214 THE DESERT _Ray S. Baker_ 223