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English
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From the African Continent to the Mormon Kingdom
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Global West, American Frontier : Travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression
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Albuquerque, NM
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University of New Mexico Press
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48-60
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This book examines how travel writers viewed the American West from the age of Manifest Destiny through the Great Depression. In the nineteenth century, the West was often presented as one developing frontier among many; in the twentieth century, travel writers often searched for American frontier distinctiveness. [Publisher]