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Make a list of things that come to mind when you think of Westward Expansion.

What sources have informed your version of the West?

How is the settling of the West portrayed?

What is destiny?

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roamAnd the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day

Home, home on the rangeWhere the deer and the antelope playWhere seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day

How often at night when the heavens are brightWith the light from the glittering starsHave I stood there amazed and asked as I gazedIf their glory exceeds that of ours

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Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so freeThe breezes so balmy and lightThat I would not exchange my home on the rangeFor all of the cities so bright

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Oh, I love those wild flow'rs in this dear land of oursThe curlew, I love to hear screamAnd I love the white rocks and the antelope flocksThat graze on the mountaintops green

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Analyzing ImagesTake observational notes as you look at the paintings.

1. What objects do you see?2. How did the artist compose the paintings?3. What messages or emotions are conveyed in the paintings?

American Progress, John Gast1

Westward the Star of Empire Makes its Way, Andrew Melrose

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George Caleb Bingham, Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers the Cumberland Gap, 1851 3

Frances Flora Palmer, for Currier and Ives, Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way, 1868. 4

Emmanuel Leutze, Westward the Course of Empire Makes Its Way, 1861