Global West, American Frontier: Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression

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GLOBAL WEST, AMERICAN FRONTIER A volume in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture GLOBAL WEST, AMERICAN FRONTIER Travel, Empire, and Exceptionalism from Manifest Destiny to the Great Depression david m. wrobel University of New Mexico Press Albuquerque © 2013 by the University of New Mexico Press All rights reserved. Published 2013 Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 6 My thanks to The Historian, Montana The Magazine of Western History, and the Pacific Historical Review for permission to draw on my work previously published therein: “Exceptionalism and Globalism: Travel Writers and the Nineteenth-Century American West,” The Historian 68 (Fall 2006): 430–60. “The West in the World, the World in the West: Gerstäcker, Burton, and Bird on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 58 (Spring 2008): 24–34. “Global West, American Frontier,” Pacific Historical Review 78 (February 2009): 1–26. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wrobel, David M. Global West, American frontier : travel, empire, and exceptionalism from manifest destiny to the Great Depression / David M. Wrobel. pages cm. — (Calvin P. Horn lectures in western history and culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8263-5370-2 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-8263-5371-9 (electronic) 1. West (U.S.)—Description and travel—History. 2. Travel writing—Historiography. 3. West (U.S.)—Historiography. 4. West (U.S.)—Public opinion. I. Title. F595.3.W76 2013 978’.02—dc23 2013017317 book design: Catherine Leonardo Composed in 10.25/13.5 Minion Pro Regular Display type is Matchwood Bold WF For my brother Marek (1955–2012), in loving memory. ...