An American history . k of the rifle, delicate in nothing but the touch of the trigger, leaving citiesin their track as if by accident rather than by design. . Settled lite and wild lifeside by side ; civilization frayed at the edges; Europe frontiered ! WoodrowWilson, in TAe Forum, Vol. XIX, p. 544. 328 Texas 329 A second wave of Westward migration followed the War of 468. Succes-1812, filling the Indiana and Illinois territories on the north and westwart^ °*the Mississippi and Missouri territories to the south, and bring- migrationing five new Western states (Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois,
An American history . k of the rifle, delicate in nothing but the touch of the trigger, leaving citiesin their track as if by accident rather than by design. . Settled lite and wild lifeside by side ; civilization frayed at the edges; Europe frontiered ! WoodrowWilson, in TAe Forum, Vol. XIX, p. 544. 328 Texas 329 A second wave of Westward migration followed the War of 468. Succes-1812, filling the Indiana and Illinois territories on the north and westwart^ °*the Mississippi and Missouri territories to the south, and bring- migrationing five new Western states (Indiana, Mississippi, Illinois, Ala-bama, Missouri) into the Union in as many years (1816-1821).The third and most wonderful era of Westward expansion(1835-1848) carried our boundary across the Rockies and theSierras to the Pacific Ocean. It is this third period which weare to study in the present chapter. The chapter is entitled Texas, because the annexation of that great commonwealth . ^.j(fcfl&...^«^*.^„™—.. .^3nu«iiaia^ifcjj^ An Emigrant Train on the Way to the West to the Union, and the disposition of the land that was acquiredin the war with Mexico which followed the annexation, deter-mined the whole policy of our government toward the Westduring the decade 1840-1850. The path of Westward expansion was never smooth. Besides 469. Easternthe distresses and dangers of the wilderness, the pioneer com- Jheaeveiop*-munities had to contend with opposition from the older to the time of the Missouri Compromise this oppositionarose from the apprehension of the original states that theburden of the defense and the development of the new commu-nities would fall upon their shoulders, and from the jealousy ofthe political power which the new communities would wrestfrom them. Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania, at the time of* mest of theWest 330 Slavery and the West the formation of the Constitution, wanted some provision in-serted to prevent the future commonwealths created out of thetrans-Alle
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