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342 THE FEDERALIST
344 No. 10 [James Madison]
349 PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
35l On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
353 The Wild Honey Suckle
354 The Indian Burying Ground
355 On Mr. Paine's Rights of Man
356 Native Americans and "Westward the Course of Empire"
356 Thomas Jefferson, 1786
357 Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787
357 President Andrew Jackson, Message to Congress (December 6, 1830)
357 Timothy Flint, Indian Wars of the West (1833)
357 Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Letter to President Martin Van Buren on the
removal of the Cherokee Indians (April 23, 1838)
358 Herman Melville, from Review of Francis Parkman's The California and Oregon
Trail (1849)
358 WILLIAM APESS
A Son of the Forest
359 from Chapter 1
360 from Chapter 2
361 WASHINGTON IRVING (1783-1859)
The Sketch Book
365 The Author's Account of Himself
367 Rip Van Winkle
378 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
399 Cultural Portfolio:Asserting a
National Language and Literature
400 NOAH WEBSTER
400 Dissertations on the English Language (1789)
401 Fable from American Spelling Book
402 MICHEL-GUILLAUME JEAN DE CRéVECOEUR
402 Letters from an American Farmer
from Letter III: What Is an American?
[see also page 301]