Summary Of Claudio Saunt's, West Of The Revolution

The year of 1776 in U.S. history is usually remembered as the year that the United States of America officially became an independent nation and issued it’s famous document, the Declaration of Independence. At the time, the nation was just the original 13 colonies. Something that often gets left out of historical studies during this year, are the things that transpired west of the 13 colonies. In Claudio Saunt’s, West of the Revolution, he discusses what most people neglect: what was going on in the western region of what today we know as North America. In 1776 after the Russians had migrated to the Aleutian Islands they had a hard time getting along with the Aleutians, so they resorted to violence even though they were dependent on them for survival. This resulted in a very difficult time for the people of the Aleutian Islands because not only were their people suffering hardships, but the Russians were also reaping all of the fur harvest because that was their reason for migrating there in the first place. The things going on in the Aleutian Islands played a large role in Spain’s decision to establish a colony in San Diego. Since the early 1500s the spaniards had been planning to colonize California, but it wasn’t …show more content…
This eventually became a sacred place to the Lakotas. The Black Hills are made up of four geological zones that form rings around an inner core. There are many long gaps and valleys that provide access to the interior due to many long streams cutting through the formation. Next, Saunt talks about the Osage country which was located along the Mississippi River. The Osage people were known to have dominated all of the people between Missouri and Arkansas. They especially thrived in the 1770s because they used the Treaty of Paris to their advantage, and they maintained ties to different Spanish and British traders. Through this they gained much fortune and