Click2History - Go West - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>"GO WEST"</p> A PICTORIAL HISTORY</p></b></font>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch1.htm">1. STORY PREFACE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch2.htm">2. THE AMERICAN WILDERNESS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="50%"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch3.htm">3. SCENES OF UNSPOILED BEAUTY</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch4.htm">4. TRANSPORTATION WEST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch5.htm">5. WAGON TRAINS GO WEST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch6.htm">6. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=100% cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch7.htm">7. THE RAILROAD IS FINISHED</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch8.htm">8. TRAINS GO WEST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch9.htm">9. PEOPLE GO WEST</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch10.htm">10. WESTERN TOWNS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch11.htm">11. THE PRICE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="go_west_ch12.htm">12. USED AND RECOMMENDED SOURCES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3">Go West, young man,<br> and<br> Grow up with the country.</i></b><br><br> John L. <a href="http://www.ku.edu/kansas/ford/gowest.html" target="_blank"><b>Soule</b></a><br> <i>Terre Haute Express</i><br> Editorial, <a target="_blank" href="images/1851.jpg">1851</a></b><br><br> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">John Soule, an editor for the <i>Terre Haute Express</i>, coined the Go west, young man phrase which remains part of Americas vocabulary. Ten years before, while much of todays Western United States was still a <a target="_blank" href="images/foreign.area.jpg"><b>foreign area</b></a>, Horace Greeley had also urged his <i>New York Tribune</i> readers:</p> <blockquote><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i>If you have no family or friends to aid you...Turn your face to the Great West and there build up your home and fortune.</i></b></font></blockquote> <p align="justify"><a target="_blank" href="images/greeley.jpg"><b>Greeley</b></a> reprinted Soules editorial in the <i>New York Tribune</i> and, forever after, people have wrongly given the future American presidential candidate <a href="http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0405/feature1/" target="_blank"><b>credit</b></a> (scroll down 50%) for the famous line.</p> <p>Many young men <i>and</i> women took Soules advice. Using primary sources (mostly from U.S. archives), this story depicts the dangers and rewards of their great westward trek.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="go_west_ch2.htm">GO TO CHAPTER 2</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.awesomestories.com/content/about_author.htm" target="_blank"><b>Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</b></center></a></p><br> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>  </body>