Fresonke, Kris, 1966-

West of Emerson : the design of manifest destiny / Kris Fresonke. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003. - xii, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction I -- 1. Natural Causes: TheJournals of Lewis and Clark 19 -- 2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands 44 -- 3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory 65 -- 4. Emerson's 183os 88 -- 5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy 113 -- 6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent 128 -- Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons 151.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 --Knowledge--West (U.S.)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Knowledge--West (U.S.)


Frontier and pioneer life--Historiography.--West (U.S.)
Manifest Destiny--Historiography.


West (U.S.)--Historiography.
United States--Historiography.--Territorial expansion

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