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Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850

By John R. Van Atta
Hardcover
$57.95
By John R. Van Atta
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A close look at westward expansion, federal lands, and American destiny in the early republic.

Few issues defined the period between American independence and the Mexican War more sharply than westward settlement and the role of the federal government in that expansion. In Securing the West, John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological differences in the years after the peace of 1815.

Americans expected the country to grow westw...

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