Sight Unseen

How Fremont's First Expedition Changed the American Landscape

Autor: Andrew Menard

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John C. Fremont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditio...

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Autor

Andrew Menard

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

288

EAN

9780803238077

ISBN

080323807X

Enbook ID

04923172

Editura

University of Nebraska Press

Greutate

569

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 30

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John C. Fremont was the most celebrated explorer of his era. In 1842, on the first of five expeditions he would lead to the Far West, Fremont and a small party of men journeyed up the Kansas and Platte Rivers to the Wind River Range in Wyoming. At the time, virtually this entire region was known as the Great Desert and many Americans viewed it and the Rocky Mountains beyond as a natural barrier to the United States. After Congress published Fremont's official report of the expedition, however, few doubted the nation should expand to the Pacific. The first in-depth study of this remarkable report, Sight Unseen argues that Fremont used both a radical form of the picturesque and an imaginary map to create an aesthetic craving for expansion. Not only did he redefine the Great Desert as a novel and complex environment, but on a summit of the Wind River Range he envisioned the continental divide as a feature that would unify rather than obstruct a larger nation. In addition to provoking the great migration to Oregon and providing an aesthetic justification for the national park system, Fremont's Report profoundly altered American views of geography, progress, and the need for a transcontinental railroad. By helping to shape the very notion of Manifest Destiny, the Report became one of the most important documents in the history of American landscape.

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