John Ross. who speaks and reads English fluently and will preside over the extraordinary rise and fall of the Cherokee Nation. the illegitimate 1yearold John C. Fremont. who is almost killed in his crib by a bullet from Andrew Jacksons gun. but survives to become known as "The Pathfinder". and Meriwether Lewis. the moody young adviser to President Thomas Jefferson who will join William Clark and become among the first American citizens to cross the Continental Divide. The second episode. "Yearly Multiplying Millions." will follow our young Nation westward. as news of the lands charted by Lewis and Clark triggers an explosion of emigration. In this episode. the philosophy of the Manifest Destiny will be explored. as well as Americas repeated attempts to craft an Indian policy to deal with the escalating classes between white settlers and the western tribes. Many questions arose out of these everincreasing conflicts.
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