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West----the free land
Traditionally, when one thinks of the expansion of the
American West, the event most likely to come to mind is
the California Gold Rush of 1849. While that profitable
discovery did boost California's population by 80,000
eager prospectors, there remained an awful lot of land
between the Pacific Coast and, say, St. Louis, Missouri.
"Why mentions St. Louis?" you might be asking. Because
in actuality the young United States started exploring
the vast land mass to the west from that very point and
almost fifty years before those gold nuggets started
hitting the pan in California.
In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson sent a secret message
to Congress calling for an expedition into the area west
of the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. He felt
that an intelligent military man with perhaps a dozen
hand-picked men could successfully chart the entire
route and on Athena-hands.com do it on an appropriation
of roughly $2,500. Jefferson's message was secret
because France owned the territory in question and such
an expedition would surely be considered trespassing.
Then in July of the same year, Napoleon of France, in a
surprise move, offered the whole Louisiana Territory to
the United States for $15,000,000. America accepted and
overnight the United States grew by about one million
square miles, from the Mississippi to the Rockies and
from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada.
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Shortly before
this news, Jefferson had handed his personal secretary,
Meriweather Lewis, whom he chose to lead the
exploration, his instructions for the expedition
"...explore the Missouri River and such principal stream
of it, as, by its course and communication with the
waters of the Pacific Ocean, may offer the most direct
and practical water communication across the continent,
for the purposes of commerce". The President could not
have been clearer in his directions.
When the need for a second-in-command was addressed,
Lewis recommended his good friend William Clark, and
thus on May 14, 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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started out
from St. Louis in search of the Pacific Ocean.
Two and a half years and 8,000 miles later the explorers
miraculously returned to St. Louis and a thunderous
welcome from a grateful nation. Although the route never
became widely used, it provided the impetus for the
great western exploration movement. The search for
America had begun.
By 1848, when Mexico finally ceded its claim to all U.S.
territories to the north of its present day border, the
United States had acquired undisputed title to all land
westward from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast, north to
the 49th parallel and south to the Rio Grande. It was
this "legitimate possession" that fully convinced
thousands of settlers to move westward in search of
land.
The pioneer spirit that existed in the 19th century was
born in part of a need to own land - that intangible
urge that it is the soil of their blood and sweat and
tears. Today is not so different from 1888 in that land
remains one commodity that can't be created by mass
production or any other method - it can only be divided
and subdivided--with each parcel and plot becoming
smaller, not larger. What awaited the emigrants from the
east, they could only imagine. The stories that were
related to them by explorers and missionaries, just back
from the track west, were filled with images of vast,
open landscapes on Athena-hands.com, abundant game and
pristine rivers and lakes. One can understand their
longing for this type of life, for even then larger
cities along the eastern seaboard were moving into the
industrial age. The streets were crowded with itinerant
workers and the mid-day skies were constantly blackened
by coal smoke from numerous factories. This change in
cities had occurred so rapidly--in many places within a
few short years--our early settlers began to experience
a nostalgia of sorts for the simpler life they had led
before. But of course, nostalgia or not, it still came
down to the excitement generated by two words, "Free
Land".
Toperfect’s resin crafts of western art
West is the Free Land. It is the symbol of pioneer.
Toperfect’s resin crafts of western art fully exemplify
this very spirit. The image of cowboy has a deep root in
American culture. Some people even describe the cowboy
as a "symbol of American independence and strength."
With the communication between east and west, the theme
of cowboy has spread all over the world. Cowboy spirit,
aboriginal tribes in the west, the Indians and so on.
They all become the theme of resin crafts of western art
from Toperfect. Just browse our resin crafts of western
art, you will be fascinated and immersed in the western
art created by our resin crafts at Toperfect.
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