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

Illustrations

ix ILLUSTRATIONS Y Figure 1: The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly 34 Figure 2: Poster, The 14 Ioway Indians and Their Interpreter 35 Figure 3: Blistered Feet Addressing an Audience in the Egyptian Hall by George Catlin 36 Figure 4: Fourteen Iowa Indians by George Catlin 37 Figure 5: Twelve Ojibway Indians by George Catlin 38 Figure 6: Photograph of Friedrich Gerstäcker 40 Figure 7: Sketch, Punishing “the Mohammaden” (artist unknown) 42 Figure 8: Photograph of Ida Pfeiffer 44 Figure 9: Swimming Horses (artist unknown) 50 Figure 10: Portrait of Richard Francis Burton 52 Figure 11: Portrait of Richard Francis Burton in Arab dress 53 Figure 12: Portraits of Richard Francis and Isabel Burton 58 Figure 13: Sketch of Salt Lake City 59 Figure 14: Photograph of the Tomb of Sir Richard Francis and Isabel Burton 61 Figure 15: Photograph of Isabella Bird 62 Figure 16: Isabella Bird’s Home in the Rockies 63 Figure 17: Isabella Bird among the lava beds at Long’s Peak 64 Figure 18: Isabella Bird in Perak, Malaya 65 Figure 19: Photograph of Isabella Bird on horseback in Erzurum 66 Figure 20: Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson 68 Figure 21: Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson and family 72 Figure 22: Photograph of Mark Twain 73 x illustrations Figure 23: Sketch of Mark Twain 74 Figure 24: Photograph of Mark Twain aboard a ship during his global tour in 1895 75 Figure 25: The White Man’s World, by Daniel Carter Beard 77 Figure 26: Portrait of Mary Kingsley 78 Figure 27: Photograph of Jack London and the Snark 87 Figure 28: Photograph of Charmian and Jack London wearing lava lavas 89 Figure 29: Photograph of leper nurses on Molokai 92 Figure 30: Photograph of young boy leper on Molokai 93 Figure 31: Photograph of wheelchair-bound woman leper on Molokai 94 Figure 32: Photograph of Charmian London watching a rodeo on Molokai 95 Figure 33: Portrait of John Muir 96 Figure 34: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt standing next to a dead rhinoceros 99 Figure 35: Photograph of first bull elephant killed by Theodore Roosevelt 100 Figure 36: Map of Brazil, showing route of Roosevelt-Rondon expedition 104 Figure 37: Photograph of Roosevelt-Rondon expedition 105 Figure 38: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Rondon, and Nhambiquara Indians 107 Figure 39: Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt and Colonel Rondon renaming the Rio da Dúvida as Rio Roosevelt 108 Figure 40: Portrait of Antonio Scarfoglio 119 Figure 41: Cover of Round the World in a Motor-Car 120 Figure 42: Photograph of Emily Post in her automobile in the Southwest 123 Figure 43: “The Indian Pueblo of Taos” by Emily Post 125 Figure 44: Portrait of C. K. Shepherd 128 Figure 45: Photograph of Ernie and Jerry Pyle 137 Figure 46: Photograph of J. B. Priestley in Wickenburg, Arizona 138 Figure 47: Cover of California: A Guide to the Golden State 145 xi illustrations Figure 48: Cover of Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State 151 Figure 49: Cover of Wyoming 163 Figure 50: Cover of Oregon: End of the Trail 171 Figure 51: Cover of On the Road, by Jack Kerouac 188 Figure 52: Cover of Journey Down a Rainbow, by J. B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes 190 Figure 53: Cover of Travels with Charley in Search of America, by John Steinbeck 192 ...