Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Opening a Highway to the Pacific, 1838 1846
By 1839, the bubble of internal paper expansion had burst; and, in a few years, the times were such that the old frontiersmen, and many others, began to feel the pinch of depression more keenly than they cared to endure. The monetary chaos particularly had been aggravated by the responsiveness of the government to the will of its people, and, in the absence of political foresight and strong leadership, the people were left to devise their own remedy. All became land poor, and at once began to cast about for relief, in various forms of external expansion. The breeders of mules and horses and hogs cry out, Let us have Texas, right or wrong! Wrote a Democratic hench man, in 1844. Texas was promptly annexed, Oregon set tled, California conquered, and the area of the United States enlarged by one third. The people went off on another mad career of speculation, discovering new glories in the West, greatest among them, gold. It was a career that was not cut short until the rise of a crucial issue between the States brought civil war.
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