Witnesses to a Vanishing America

MITCHELL,LEE

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Author
MITCHELL,LEE
Publish Date
05/01/1981
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
320
Publisher Name
PUPRESS
ISBN-10
069106461X
ISBN-13
9780691064611
citemno
278793
Subtitle
The Nineteenth-Century Response
SKU
9780691064611

Description

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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