1. Westward the course of Empire
2. The West in the Colonial era
3. Venturing beyond the Appalachians
4. Discoveries of Lewis and Clark
5. The fur trade and the mountain men
7. Struggles of the Plains Indians
8. Rebellious Texas and the Alamo
9. Traveling the Oregon Trail
10. Manifest destiny and the Mexican War
11. The California Gold Rush
12. Bleeding Kansas and Civil War in the West
13. Building the transcontinental railroads
14. Cowboys and cattle drives
15. Homesteaders on the Plains
16. Little Bighorn and wounded Kne
17. Life in Western towns and cities
18. John Wesley Powell and the desert Southwest
19. Women in the Wild West
20. From territories to Western states
21. Western violence, law, and order
22. Protecting Yellowstone and Yosemite
23. Mythology of the American West
