Intended for classroom use, work contains 47 pages from Las Casas' life of Columbus plus 24 other selections--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands ceded to American settlers, the U.S.

Presents a collection of essays that describe the settling of the American West and the conflicts between the encroaching whites and the native peoples.