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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Western Expansion"”.
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Philip St. George Cooke: On the Vanguard of Western Expansion with the U.S. Army, 1827-1848
… army to secure the nations claims to its western territories. He explored the frontier, gathered information on its resources and inhabitants, built roads and military posts, policed settlements and Indian societies, and guarded the country's western borders. In the process, Cooke aided …
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The killer shepherds: hunters as pastoral figures in the Early National period
… attitudes about nature, individualism, and western expansion. In exploring the evolution of perceptions about the hunter, I argue that this f igure came to function as the shepherd in a new conception of the pastoral mode. My argument involves an original framework of the pastoral that I …
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Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Race, Place, and National Identity in America's "Land of Promise"
… in the present-day. But decades of American western expansion changed indigenous relationships to the region. In 1868, the United States negotiated with the Lakota people the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty, which established the Great Sioux Reservation and legally guaranteed the Black Hills …
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Human Capital: The Moral and Political Economy of Northeastern Abolitionism, 1763–1833
… as the Missouri Crisis over slavery’s proposed western expansion reached a crescendo. The dissertation concludes by laying the intellectual and political-economic groundwork for antebellum abolitionism by emphasizing the under-appreciated bridge figure of Benjamin Lundy and the formation of the …
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Walking the Rift: Alfred Robert Tucker in East Africa, idealism and imperialism, 1890 – 1911
… which move beyond the old paradigms of Western expansion and African victimization are being called for by scholars of both North and South; narratives which allow room for strong archival evidence of an egalitarian joint endeavor and African cultural vitality without avoiding the …
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Federal perceptions and tribal sovereignty: consultation and relations between the Bureau of Land Management and federally recognized tribes
… of settler colonialism. Its origins lie in Western expansion and the dispossession of land from Indigenous communities. Today it administers the largest collection of public lands in the country and must maintain relationships through consultation with Tribal governments. Even though these …
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The Dust Dwellers: The Environmental Philosophy of John Steinbeck, Robinson Jeffers, and Jack London
… engaged modernist themes of decay as applied to Western expansion and the dissolution of the American Edenic dream. Investigating the fractured relationship between civilization and the environment, they searched for a philosophy that could reconcile humanity to nature. Specifically, I argue that …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… Ultimately, fundamental concerns regarding western expansion in general, especially for the Whigs, and political party loyalty proved the decisive factors in the presidential election of 1844 and Texas annexation. The evidence gathered in this study indicates that Texas annexation …
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The Preservation of the Colonial Spanish Horse and Robert E. Brislawn, Sr.
… horses that he could locate as links to western heritage. From 1924 until his death in 1979, Brislawn’s diligent quest introduced him to like-minded individuals with similar goals. His story places these horses into the larger frames of western, Borderlands, and Spanish Colonial history …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
Fort Owen was part of recent historical western expansion into Montana, influencing both the cultural and environmental landscape of the state and the fort’s own existence. The Fort Owen collection provided the opportunity to research the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
Fort Owen was part of recent historical western expansion into Montana, influencing both the cultural and environmental landscape of the state and the fort’s own existence. The Fort Owen collection provided the opportunity to research the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period …
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The Other Vanishing American: Disappearing Farmers in American Literature, 1887-1939.
… texts reveal a buried legacy of removal within Western expansion. This analysis also shows how portrayals of vanishing farmers often preserve the racialist logic of extinction discourse, wherein race contributes to extinction. The conclusion suggests a future direction for the literary analysis …
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A New Promised Land? Denominations, Local Congregations, Camp Meetings, and the Creation of Community in Early Kentucky, c.1780-1830
… can one begin to understand how the process of western expansion was able to succeed.
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The Law of Meat
In this thesis I have two nonfiction chapters from a book on Laura Ingalls Wilder and two fiction stories.
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The Law of Meat
In this thesis I have two nonfiction chapters from a book on Laura Ingalls Wilder and two fiction stories.
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A Missiological Evaluation of Southern Baptist Multiethnic Churches in the United States
… members when the Convention was founded. The western expansion of Southern Baptists and the United States' acquisition of the Southwest territories following the Mexican American War led the young Convention to initiate mission work with Hispanics. The unequal treatment that these ethnic …
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The Sand Creek Massacre and the History of Greater Reconstruction in the American West
… North vs. South story. Nevertheless, the era of western expansion, a central theme throughout the nineteenth century, has no contingent place within this traditional narrative. Meanwhile, the history of the American West and its diverse peoples appears in many textbooks as an unrelated albeit …