Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response (Princeton Legacy Library, 770)
By Unknown Author.
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 apprehensionsOriginally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books fr...
ISBN(s)
069106461X, 9780691064611
