Lions Of The West Analysis

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In Lions of The West, what was Morgan's central idea logical or illogical? Some of the texts we will be using in the text will be, The Way to Rainy Mountains by N. Scott Momaday. Two of Stephen Ambrose’s texts, Thomas Jefferson’s America, 1801, as well as, Reporting to the President, September 23- December 31, 1806. Finally Chief Joseph Speaks written by Chief Joseph. Robert Morgan's claims that citizens are the main reason for westwards expansion were reasonable. In fact, in the text by Chief Joseph it stated that “they would tell lies for each other; drove off with our cattle.” which represents how awful the white men treated the natives which, in fact, could lead to them to move away for a better living style. “It carried over a course of many generations and many hundreds of miles,,” express in Scott Momaday’s text that infers that the migration of the Kiowas have been increasing in the expansion for many generations. Therefore the Kiowas civilization moving around goes with Robert Morgan’s claim. “Jefferson's interest in exploring the country between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean,” which concluded in Stephen Ambrose’s text that he was a reasoning for westward expansion by hiring Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore new boundaries in the west. In Robert Morgan’s text “Thomas Jefferson, whose vision of the future republic had from the beginning stretched over the mountains to the …show more content…
In Momaday’s text is stated “from the beginning the migration of the Kiowas was an expression of the human mind,” which concludes that the Kiowas migration was brought out by the feeling of the human mind in the expansion and wasn’t caused by the citizens. “They brought many new things which people had never seen before,” in Chief Joseph’s text utters that the citizens then hadn’t created the expansion, on the other hand, it was brought to