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

“NO IMAGE IN AMERICAN HISTORY HAS BEEN SO POWERFUL— so evocative not simply of romance and adventure but of what it means to be American—as that of the cowboy. Astride his horse, etched against a lonely horizon, the cowboy epitomizes individualism, integrity, strength. The cowboy guards his herd; he guards his nation’s identity.”
― H.W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West

“The Homestead Act held out the promise that anyone”
― 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