Global West, American frontier : travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression /

This thoughtful examination of a century of travel writing about the American West overturns a variety of popular and academic stereotypes. Looking at both European and American travelers' accounts of the West, from de Tocqueville's Democracy in America to William Least Heat-Moon's Bl...

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Main Author:	Wrobel, David M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2013.
Series:	Calvin P. Horn lectures in Western history and culture.
Subjects:	West (U.S.) > Description and travel > History. Travel writing > Historiography. West (U.S.) > Historiography. West (U.S.) > Public opinion. HISTORY / Social History. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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