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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. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to ...

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Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response 2016, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691638065

Hardcover

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response 2014, Princeton University Press, New Jersey

ISBN-13: 9780691609867

Trade paperback

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response 1987, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691102238

Trade paperback

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response 1981, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691064611

Hardcover