Vogt described all of U.S. history as little more than a “march of destruction,” in which colonists “chopped, burned, drained, plowed, and shot” their way from the Atlantic to the Pacific. “Our forefathers,” he thundered, were “one of the most destructive groups of human beings that have ever raped the earth. They moved into one of the richest treasure houses ever opened to man, and in a few decades turned millions of acres of it into a shambles.”
