Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response by Lee Clark Mitchell

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response

Lee Clark Mitchell

340 pages hardcover

2 editions

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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 astonishin...

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