The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the WestSimon and Schuster, 2004 - 367 Seiten Looking down upon the Potomac from his verandah at Mount Vernon, recently retired General George Washington imagined a route through the mountains to the vastness of the West. He was wrong about the river, but not about his country's destiny. |
Inhalt
The Surveyor | 1 |
The Race to the West | 29 |
Up the River | 47 |
Ridge and Valley | 65 |
Squatters | 83 |
A Darker Wood | 101 |
Skirting the Falls | 121 |
Trial and Tribulation | 139 |
The Second American Revolution | 213 |
The Progress of Man | 231 |
A Heroic Age | 249 |
The Border | 267 |
The River Today | 281 |
Notes | 301 |
Acknowledgments | 345 |
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