Witnesses to a vanishing America : the nineteenth-century response
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Witnesses to a vanishing America : the nineteenth-century response
（Princeton legacy library）
Princeton University Press, [2014?]
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Reprint. Originally published: Princeton University Press, c1981
"Print-on-demand"--Back cover
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-312) and index
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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 again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Table of Contents
*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. ix*LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi*PREFACE, pg. xiii*ONE. From Landscape to Culture, Preservation to Critique, pg. 1*TWO. The Vanishing Wilderness, pg. 23*THREE. Preserving Frontier History, pg. 65*FOUR. George Catlin's Mission, pg. 93*FIVE. Indians and Image Catchers, pg. 111*SIX. Their Tribal Lore Preserved, pg. 151*SEVEN. Melville's Cannibals and Christians, pg. 189*EIGHT. Toward Cultural Relativism, pg. 213*NINE. Weighed, Measured, and Found Wanting, pg. 253*TEN. Epilogue, pg. 269*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 281*INDEX, pg. 313
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