Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America

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171 Index Abrams, M. H., 42 Adams, John Quincy, 112 Adams, Stephen, 93 African Colonization Society, 118 Alcott, Bronson, 126 Alger, Horatio, 69 American Bible Society, 3 Amusing and Thrilling Adventures of a California Artist, 76, 78–79 Anderson, Benedict, 12, 18 Banvard, John, 65, 66, 68, 74, 76, 77–78, 79 Beecher, Lyman, 3, 22, 24, 25, 26–27, 58–59 Benton, Thomas Hart, 22, 48–49 Boime, Albert, 100 Bowditch, Nathaniel, 36 Boynton, Charles, 19, 24, 25, 57 Buffon, Comte de, 108–10, 124, 125 Burford, Robert, 67 Burnett, Graham, 33 Burr, Aaron, 17 Byerly, Alison, 75, 149n20 Calhoun, John, 25 California Gold Rush, 49, 121 Canada, 24 Carter, James G., 126 Cather, Willa, 10 Cavell, Stanley, 51 Channing, William Ellery, 5, 56–57, 58 Clay, Henry, 27 Clifford, James, 85 Cole, Thomas, 54 Comment, Bernard, 66 Compromise of 1850, 7 Cooper, James Fenimore, 74, 75, 102, 105–6, 110, 118 Crockett, Davy, 106, 114 Cuba, 1, 20 Cushing, Caleb, 23–24, 75, 104 Danhof, Clarence, 28 Dawes Act, 9 Dix, John A., 19, 23, 26, 120, 134 Dix, John Ross, Amusing and Thrilling Adventures of a California Artist, 76, 78–79 Downing, Andrew Jackson, 27 Edney, Matthew, 12, 33, 39, 46 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2, 18, 25, 55, 81–82, 85, 87, 143n25 and Fuller, 92, 94, 95, 96, 100–101 and Thoreau, 45, 53, 59 Everett, Edward, 66 Ezekiel, book of, 35–36 Fink, Mike, 74–75 Fremont, Jessie Benton, 48–49 Fremont, John Charles, 46 and Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843–44, 48–51 French, the, 73–74, 100 Fresonke, Kris, 141n27 Fugitive Slave Law, 115 Fuller, Margaret, 105 Summer on the Lakes in 1843, 91–101 Gates, Henry Louis, 120 gender, 26–27 geographical predestination, 20, 39 Goetzmann, William, 46, 141n25 Grossberg, Lawrence, 12 Hale, Edward Everett. See “Man Without a Country” Harvey, Bruce, 159n45 Harvey, David, 59 Hawaii, 1, 135, 151n12, 159n44 Herder, Johann Gottfried von, 25, 97, 120 Homestead Act, 9 Horsman, Reginald, 120 Houston, Sam, 70 Indian Removal Act, 118 Ingersoll, C. J., 21 International Meridian Conference, 9 Jefferson, Thomas, 5, 21, 108–10, 147n25 Jones, J. Wesley, 76, 78–79 Kaplan, Amy, 141n27 Kearny, Gen. Stephen Watts, 22, 49 King, Rufus, 6 Kolodny, Annette, 93, 141n26 Land Ordinance of 1785, 5 Lefebvre, Henri, 12 Leutze, Emanuel, 108 Lewis, R. W. B., 147n26 Lewis and Clark expedition, 31 Limerick, Patricia Nelson, 141n26 Linklater, Andro, 140n11 Linnaeus, 32, 124, 125 Lippard, George, 82 Louisiana Purchase, 103 “Man Without a Country,” 16–18 Manifest Destiny, 1, 38–39, 55, 56, 71, 105, 110 Mann, Horace, 126 Marx, Leo, 55 Mexican War, 38, 49, 70, 71, 121, 134 in ‹ction, 82 Mexico, 26 Michaels, Walter Benn, 51–52 Miller, Angela, 66, 91, 97, 148n3 Mississippi River, 75–76 Missouri Compromise, 7 Melville Israel Potter, 106 Mardi, 4, 29, 105 Moby-Dick, 30–31, 34–43, 56, 57, 91, 106, 110–17 Typee, 82–91, 101 Morse, Jedidiah, 6, 18, 122–26, 127, 135 Morse, Sidney, 6, 131 Moss, Richard, 124 Narrative of the First United States Exploring Expedition. See Wilkes, Charles, and U.S. Exploring Expedition National Reform Association, 140n18 Native Americans, representation of, 73–73, 98–99, 109 See also race New, Elisa, 150n3 Northwest Ordinance, 6, 120 Oettermann, Stephan, 64, 66, 67 Onuf, Peter S., 140n12 O’Sullivan, John L., 56, 105, 111 172
Index panoramas, 64–80, 82, 85 Perham, Josiah, 66 Perham’s Pictorial Voyage, 66, 72, 73, 74 Pestalozzi, Johann, 126 Pike, Zebulon, 104 Poe, Edgar Allan, 26 Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 31 Porter, Carolyn, 150n3 Powell’s Historical Picture of the Discovery of the Mississippi by DeSoto…, 69–71 Pratt, Mary Louise, 32, 65, 82, 87 race, 25, 103–4, 113, 118–35 Randolph, John, 6, 96 reform, educational, 126–29 religion and national expansion, 18, 20–22, 26, 35–36, 38–40, 57–58, 112 Renan, Ernest, 141n29 Revelation, book of, 35–36 Reynolds, Jeremiah, 31, 32 Risley, Professor, 65, 66, 71, 72, 73, 74 Rogin, Michael Paul, 115 Romantic nationalism, 19, 97, 120 See also Herder, Johann Gottfried von Roosevelt, Theodore, 9 Rowe, John Carlos, 141n27 Rowson, Susanna, 122–23, 126, 127, 135 Russia, 19–20 Ryden, Kent, 147n14 Said, Edward, 65, 82, 110–11 schoolbooks, 119, 121–35 science and national expansion, 18, 24...