Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response


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- Published:
- Jul 14, 2014
- Copyright:
- 1981
- Pages:
- 340
- Size:
- 6 x 9 in.
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Propelled across the continent by notions of rugged individualism” and “manifest destiny,” pioneer Americans soon discovered that such slogans only partly disguised the fact that building an empire meant destroying a wilderness. Through an astonishing range of media, they voiced their concern about America’s westward mission. Drawing on a wide variety of evidence, Lee Clark Mitchell portrays the growing apprehensions
Originally published in 1981.
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