Manifest Destiny: One Idea, Many Eyes

A wide western horizon at dusk: a Cherokee log farmstead with fields on the left, a Mexican adobe rancho in the middle distance, and a pioneer covered-wagon camp with a small fire on the right, all under one evening sky with early stars.

Manifest Destiny: One Idea, Many Eyes

American Progress, an 1872 painting by John Gast. A giant woman in white robes, Columbia, floats westward over the plains carrying a schoolbook and stringing telegraph wire. Behind her to the right, the East glows with cities, bridges, ships, and three railroad trains. Below her, settlers walk with covered wagons, stagecoaches, and plows. At the dark left edge, Native people on horseback, a buffalo herd, and a bear move into shadow ahead of the settlers.

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Analyst’s Note

One Idea, Three Stories