American Progress

Painting by John Gast, American Progress , 1872. Publisher George Crofutt worked with illustrator John Gast to create American Progress , which he distributed as a print with his magazine, Crofutt’s Western World . With so many images of the western landscape already in circulation, Crofutt decided to create a new design. He discussed his ideas with Gast, and together they came up with this image, which Crofutt described as a: ... beautiful and charming female ... floating westward through the air, bearing on her forehead the "Star of Empire" . . . In her right hand she carries a book ... the emblem of education and ... national enlightenment, while with the left hand she unfolds and stretches the slender wires of the telegraph, that are to flash intelligence throughout the land. [Nature’s nation American art and environment / Karl Kusserow and Alan C. Braddock ; with contributions by Miranda Belarde-Lewis [ and others].]( page 202 Fairness and freedom a history of two open societies, New Zealand and the United States / David Hackett Fischer. page 149 Go west Chicago and American expansion / Olivia Mahoney. pages 98, 115 The American story who, what, when, where, why of our nation’s heritage. pages 146, 374 United States history and government resource guide / Patricia Friedman, Ellen Victor, and Elaine Weiss, editors. page 231 Out of site survey science and the hidden West / Amy Scott, Jason Weems, William L. Fox, Britt Salvesen ; with contributions by Hillary Mushkin, Mark Klett, Kim Stringfellow, Will Wilson. page 42 [The Bedford introduction to literature reading, thinking, writing / [edited by] Michael Meyer.]( Emerson bicentennial essays edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. page 282 Convergence Autry National Center Magazine, 2007 Winter, Spring / Autry National Center. pages 42-43 Convergence Autry National Center Magazine, 2005 Fall / Autry National Center. Inside cover First telegraph line across the continent Charles Brown’s 1861 diary / edited by Dennis N. Mihelich and James E. Potter. page 2 Meeting point, Tle anglais B1/B2 / Josette Starck ; Dominique Santoni ; Véronique Jaubert. page 219 Empire and liberty the Civil War and the West / edited by Virginia Scharff, exhibition curated by Carolyn Brucken. page 124; plate 10 (photo insert) Home lands how women made the West / Virginia Scharff, Carolyn Brucken. plate 12, following page 134 High country news for people who care about the West. page 3 Encounters with a distant land exploration and the great Northwest / edited by Carlos A. Schwantes, with the assistance of Evelyne Pickett. cover Reinventing Eden the fate of nature in Western culture / Carolyn Merchant. page 128 Manifest destiny American expansionism and the empire of right / Anders Stephanson. cover West of Emerson the design of manifest destiny / Kris Fresonke. page 120 Born for the shade stereotypes of the Native American in United States literature and the visual arts, 1776-1894 / Klaus Lubbers. page [134] figure 36 Does technology drive history? the dilemma of technological determinism / edited by Merritt Roe Smith and Leo Marx. page 12 The unfinished nation a concise history of the American people / Alan Brinkley. To dance with the devil Virginia City / by Nicholas Clapp. page 175 Whiggish international law Elihu Root, the Monroe doctrine, and international law in the Americas / by Christopher R. Rossi. Cover ”Discovering” new talent Charles F. Lummis’s conflicted mentorship of Sui Sin Far, Sharlot Hall, and Mary Austin / Joe Staples. page 184 Gamaliel Waldo Beaman his life and art / Leonard Allen Haug ; foreword by Diana Korzenik. page 22 Fabricating Lureland a history of the imagination and memory of peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea / Julia Winckler. 123 Bridging the continent a sourcebook on the American West / edited by Carter Smith. title pages The early imperial republic from the American Revolution to the U.S.-Mexican War