TY - BOOK ID - 77902145 TI - Witnesses to a vanishing America PY - 1981 SN - 0691638063 1400856159 0691609861 9781400856152 9780691064611 069106461X 9780691609867 069106461X 9780691609867 PB - Princeton, New Jersey DB - UniCat KW - Ethnology KW - Indians of North America KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Nature conservation KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - History. KW - Public opinion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77902145 AB - 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 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. ER -