Dreams of El Dorado Quotes

“America’s Industrial Revolution unfolded over decades in most of the country; in the Far West it happened in just a few years.”
― H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

“Americans”
― H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

“In the 1840s American nationalism was scarcely distinguishable from militant Protestantism; the emerging ideology of Manifest Destiny portrayed Columbia”
― H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

“Western individualism sneered”
― H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West