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“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
“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