Riders Of The Purple Sage

Lee Clark Mitchell

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 1998

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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Riders Of The Purple Sage

Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth-Century Response (Princeton Legacy Library)