Image and Imagination: Art of the American West
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Documenting Westward Expansion Revealing an Unseen Landscape Portraying the Native American


Westward the Star of Empire Makes its Way Oil painting

Theodore Kaufmann, Westward the Star of Empire Makes its Way, oil on canvas, 1867.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis 		Our Manifest destiny is to overspread the continent alloted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.

John Louis O'Sullivan, United States Magazine and Democratic Review (July-August, 1845)

 Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way Illustration

Print after painting by J. Hamilton, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way. Illustration in A Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry, Henry T. Coates, editor, 1881.
Collection of the Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri - St. Louis

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