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Bibliography


Primary Sources


Books


Anonymous. In The Tropics: By a Settler in Santo Domingo. New York: Carleton Publishers, 1863; London: Bentley Publishing, 1863.

Anonymous. The Prince of Kashna: A West Indian Story. New York: Carleton Publishers, 1863; London: Bentley Publishing, 1863.

Cazneau, Mrs. William (Cora Montgomery). Eagle Pass or Life on the Border. Austin, TX: Robert Crawford Cotner. 1966. (Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by George Putnam & Co., in the clerk’s office of the district Court of the United States for the southern district of New York).

Cazneau, Mrs. William Leslie. Our Winter Eden: Pen Pictures of the Tropics. New York: Author’s Publishing, 1878.

Fabens, Joseph W. A Story of Life on the Isthmus. New York: George Putnam. 1853.

Fabens, Joseph W. The Camel Hunt; A Narrative of Personal Adventure. Boston: James Munroe and Company. 1851.

Fabens, Joseph W. Facts About Santo Domingo. New York: George Putnam. 1862.

Fabens, Joseph W. Life in Santo Domingo. New York: Majors and Knapp. 1873.

Fabens, Joseph W. Life in the Tropics. New York: Carleton, 1863.

Fabens, Joseph W. Resources of Santo Domingo. New York: Carleton Publishers. 1863; Washington: Majors and Knapp, 1869; Washington: F. Taylor, 1871

Fabens, Joseph W. The Uses of the Camel: Considered with a view to his Introduction into our Western States and Territories. A Paper read before the American Geographical and Statistical Society, March 2, 1865. New York: Carleton, 1865; Washington:  F. Taylor, 1865.

Montgomery, Cora. Eagle Pass or Life on the Border. New York: George Putnam. 1852.

Montgomery, Cora. The Prince of Kashna: A West Indian Story. New York: Carleton, 1866.

Montgomery, Cora. The King of Rivers, With a Chart of Our Slave and Free Soil Territory.  New York: Charles Wood. 1850.

Montgomery, Cora. The Queen of the Islands. New York: Charles Wood. 1850.

Montgomery, Cora. The Queen of Islands and the King of Rivers. New York: Charles Wood. 1850.

Montgomery, Corrine. Texas and Her Presidents with a Glance at Her Climate and Agricultural Capabilities. New York: E. Winchester. New World Press. 1845.

O’Sullivan, John. Union, Disunion, and Reunion. A Letter to General Franklin Pierce, Ex-President of the United States. Sabin Americana. Gale, Cengage Learning. CSU San Marcos. London, 1862.



Images/Photographs/Paintings/Engravings/Sketches/Posters/Maps

Artist Unknown. American Flag and Ocean. Photograph. The Patterson Foundation. Date unknown. http://impact.blog.thepattersonfoundation.org/category/sarasota-national-cemetery/page/4/

Artist Unknown. Amy S. Greenberg. Photograph. Penn State News. Date unknown. http://news.psu.edu/tag/amy-greenberg

Artist Unknown. Amy S. Greenberg. Photograph. Penn State News. Date unknown. http://news.psu.edu/story/141616/2010/08/10/research/research-feature-forgotten-war

Artist Unknown. “An army train crossing the plains.” Engraving. Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Washington, D.C. Harper's Weekly. Volume #2, (1858 April 24) p. 264. April 24, 1858.

Artist Unknown. The Battle of Pea Ridge. Painting. Pea Ridge National Military Park. Date unknown. http://www.nps.gov/peri/index.htm

Artist Unknown. Chinese Labor on Trans-Continental Railroad. Photograph. Date unknown.  http://www.ccnc.ca/toronto/history/info/info.html    

Artist Unknown. The Emily B. Souder. History of Colliersville. Illustration. Date unknown. http://historyofcollierville.wikispaces.com/Yellow+Fever

Artist Unknown. Frederick Merk. Date unknown. Photograph.  http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102977/Edwin-A-Lahey-NF-39.aspx

Artist Unknown. “The Ideal American Family.” Photograph.  Ambrose Kane: Hard Truth in Simple Language. Photograph. Date unknown. http://www.ambrosekane.com/

Artist Unknown. Gen. Zachary Taylor at the Battle of Buena Vista. Painting. The Granger Collection, New York. Date Unknown.

Artist Unknown. Jane Cazneau and a Sampling of Her books. Illustration. Getty Images. 1850. http://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/engraving-depicting-jane-maria-eliza-mcmanus-storms-cazneau-news-photo/114947575

Artist Unknown. “John L. O’Sullivan.” Harper's Weekly, 1874. Photograph. The New York Historical Society.

Artist Unknown. Jane Maria Eliza McManus Storms Cazneau. Illustration. Find-A Grave. Uploaded to site by Patrick L. Cazneau, relation unknown. Find A Grave Memorial# 25658603. Date Unknown. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25658603

Artist Unknown. Landmarks of Westward Expansion. Map. Date Unknown. http://wptschedule.org/series.php?SeriesID=519

Artist Unknown. Linda Hudson. Photograph.  

Artist Unknown. Louisiana Purchase. Map. Date Unknown. http://www.jacksbromeliads.com/floridasseminolewarsi.htm

Artist Unknown. Lumber and Log Exports. Photograph. Date Unknown. http://nwpr.org/post/2013-good-year-west-coast-log-and-lumber-exports

Artist Unknown. Mexican Cession. Map. Ancestry.com. Date unknown. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hummingbird/California/mexican_war.htm

Artist Unknown. The Nehemiah Letts Farm in the Late 1850's. Illustration. Descendants of William Lett's. Date unknown. http://www.brockwayfamily.com/journal/Letts/letts.htm

Artist Unknown. Oil Derrick. Photograph. Date unknown. http://www.naturalresourceslandservices.com/home.htm

Artist Unknown. Pioneer Family. Photograph. Solomon Butcher/Nebraska State Historical Society RG2608.PH1675. http://www.grit.com/farm-and-garden/homestead-act-of-1862.aspx#axzz31czAzr6J

Artist Unknown. Settlers on the Great Plains. Photograph. Date unknown. http://www.prairiefirenewspaper.com/2012/03/the-making-of-the-great-plains

Artist Unknown. Slaves in Jacksonville, FL. Photograph. Mail Online. Date unknown. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391155/Not-just-number--Website-trace-African-slaves-shaped-America-country-origin.html

Artist Unknown. Slave sale poster, 1829. Poster. How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism. 1829. http://communityjournal.net/how-slavery-led-to-modern-capitalism/

Artist Unknown. Spanish Missionary Father Garzes Instructing Native Americans.  Date unknown. http://www.allposters.ie/-sp/Spanish-Missionary-Father-Garzes-Instructing-Native-Americans-posters_i2877131_.htm

Artist Unknown. “Two African American farmers discussing women's suffrage.” Harper’s Weekly and Leslie Illustrated Images. Illustration. Date Unknown. http://www.negroartist.com/HARPERSWEEKLYANDLESLIESILLUSTRATEDIMAGES/pages/TwoAfricanAmericanfarmersdiscussingwomenssuffrage_jpg.htm

Artist Unknown. Uncle Sam and Global Imperialism. anti-imperialism.com. http://anti-imperialism.com/2012/07/23/russia-accuses-west-of-blackmail-on-syria-us-pressures-african-proxies-on-iran/

Artist Unknown. Ten Thousand Miles From Tip to Tip. Engraving. Philadelphia Press. Date unknown. https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/race-empire-and-culture-in-the-gilded-age-1870-1900/war-empire-and-an-emerging-american-world-power/american-imperialism/

Artist Unknown. Western Expansion: Emigrants to the Western Country. Engraving. Date unknown. http://ushistoryimages.com/western-expansion.shtm

Bierstadt, Albert. Emigrants Crossing the Plains. Painting. National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Oklahoma City, OK. November 27, 1867.

Bingham, George Caleb. Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap. Painting. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Washington University in St. Louis. 1851-1852. http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/193

Brady, Mathew B. Hamilton Fish. Photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Between 1855-1865.

Brady, Mathew B. [Thomas Hart Benton, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]. Photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Between 1854-1858. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2004663877/

Curry, John Steuart. Study for Westward Movement: Justice of the Plains. Painting. artnet. 1937. http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-steuart-curry/study-for-westward-movement-justice-of-the-plains-a-484q5WinWaCurD_s1wSsXQ2

Department of Interior. Indian Land For Sale. Poster. Contributed by Ron Fife. 1911.

Gast, John. American Progress. Painting. Published by George A, Crofutt. Chromolithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. 1872.

Insogna, James, Bo. Amber Waves of Grain. Superimposed photograph. fineartamerica. January 8th, 2012. http://fineartamerica.com/featured/amber-waves-of-grain-james-bo-insogna.html

Jewitt, William. The Promised Land-The Grayson Family. Painting. Terra Foundation for American Art. Daniel J. Terra Collection. Chicago, Illinois. 1850.

King, Sidney. John Smith Trading with Native Americans. Painting. National Park Service. Jamestown Colonial National Historical Park. Twentieth century. http://www.virtualjamestown.org/pic6a.html

Leutze, Emanuel. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way. Painting. United States Capitol, Washington D.C. Architect of the Capitol. July 1861 to November 1862. http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/other-paintings-and-murals/westward-course-empire-takes-its-way

Melrose, Andrew W. Westward the Star of Empire Takes its Way. Painting. Museum of the American West. Los Angeles, CA. 1867.

Nebel, Carl. Mexican-American War: American troops bombarding Veracruz. Painting. Encyclopedia Britannica. Date unknown. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/379134/Mexican-American-War

O’Sullivan, John L. United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Image of front cover. Volume XII, 1843. https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesmaga00lang

O’Sullivan, Timothy H. John L. O'Sullivan. Photograph. The Black Hawk War: Utah's Forgotten Tragedy, Date Unknown. http://www.blackhawkproductions.com/Manifest%20Destiny.htm

Powell, William Henry. Discovery of the Mississippi by De Soto. Painting. United States Capitol, Washington D.C. Architect of the Capitol. 1853. http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/historic-rotunda-paintings/discovery-mississippi-by-de-soto

Ranney, William. Boone's First View of Kentucky. Painting. Indianapolis Museum of Art. Indianapolis, Indiana. 1849.

Schile, Henry H. Daniel Boone protects his family. Painting. Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division. Washington, D.C. 1874.  

Shaw, Joshua. Coming of the White Man. Painting. The Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Collection. Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Studio. Northridge, California. 1850.

Spencer, Lilly Martin. Domestic Happiness. Painting. Detroit Institute of Arts. 1849. http://www.dia.org/object-info/ced086a6-e224-4e92-acf5-f5d5d9f837d3.aspx

Texas State Historical Marker, SITE OF DREAM COLONY OF JANE MCMANUS. Ancestry.com. 1968. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txmatago/ hm_ma_mcmanus.htmoiii

Trumbull, John. Surrender of Lord Cornwallis. Painting. Rotunda of the US Capitol. Washington D.C. 1820/

University of Illinois. Robert D. Sampson. Photograph.

Vanderlyn, John. Portrait of Aaron Burr, 1802. Engraving. http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org/about/pop_preview/downloads/A107_BurrPortrait_1931_58.jpg

Yena, Donald M. The Annexation of Texas to the Union. Painting. Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 1986.



Newspapers

Anonymous. “The Frontier.” New York Tribune. March 6, 1851.

Anonymous. “General Taylor.” New York Tribune. May 22, 1847.

Anonymous. “Later From Vera Cruz.” New York Tribune. April 30, 1847.

Anonymous. “The Latest From Vera Cruz.” New York Tribune. April 9, 1847.

Anonymous. “Mexico and the War.” New York Tribune. April 20, 1847.

Anonymous. “Mr. Calhoun, Right Or Wrong.” New York Tribune. March 8, 1850.

Anonymous. “New-Orleans--Volunteers Returning--General Taylor--His Popularity--The Presidency--Business,” New York Tribune. May 27, 1847.

Anonymous. “Our Mexican Border.” New York Tribune. December 11, 1850.

Anonymous. “Peon Slavery on the Rio Grande--Letter from the Border.” New York Tribune. July 15, 1850.

Anonymous. “SOUTH WESTERN TEXAS: Production of Wine and Sugar--Peonage on the Border.” New York Tribune. August 2, 1851.

Author Unknown. “REPORTED LOSS OF THE STEAM-SHIP EMILY B. SOUDER.” The New York Times. December 28, 1878.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F60915F73E5A127B93CAAB1789D95F4C8784F9

Author Unknown. “The Science of Manifest Destiny.” The New York Times,” September 9, 1852.

Author Unknown. “The Tribune on Manifest Destiny.” The New York Times, July 10, 1858.

Garrison, William Lloyd. “The American Union.” The Liberator. January 10, 1845.

Montgomery. “Outrage on the American Flag in Cuba. New York Tribune. January 14, 1847.

Montgomery, Cora. “Gen. Arista’s Position.” New York Tribune. February 1, 1851.

Montgomery, Cora. “The Gypsies.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review. July 1842. 56-68.

Montgomery, Cora. “The King of Rivers.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review. December, 1849. 506-515.

Montgomery, Cora. “The Legal Wrongs of Women.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review. May 1844. 477-483.

Montgomery, Cora. “LETTERS ON NEW-MEXICO.-NO. III: Peonage.” New York Tribune. December 13 1850.

Montgomery, Cora. “LETTERS ON NEW-MEXICO.-NO. III: Peonage.” New York Tribune. October 17, 1850.

Montgomery, Cora. “Narciso Lopez and his companions.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review. October, 1851. 292-301.

Montgomery, Cora. “The Southwestern Border.” New York Tribune. March 8, 1851.

O’Sullivan, John. “Annexation.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, July-August, 1845, #17 no.1.

O’Sullivan, John, “The Democratic Principle-The Importance of Its Assertion, and Applications to Our Political System and Literature.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. I, 1838.

O’Sullivan, John. “The Great Nation of Futurity.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review. November 1839, Volume VI No. XXIII, 426-430.

O’Sullivan, John. “John O’Sullivan on Manifest Destiny.” United States Democratic Review. Volume 6, Issue 23, 426-430.



Legal Papers

Hartog's, a footnote in "Marital Exits," 80 Geo LR 95, 118 n 96, which is derived from a microfilm copy of the Legal Papers of Aaron Burr, noted in fn. 51.


Secondary Sources


Articles

Harris, Sheldon H. “John Louis O’Sullivan and the Election of 1844 in New York.” New York History Vol. 41, No. 3 (July 1960) 278-298.

Harris, Sheldon H. “John L. O’Sullivan Serves the Confederacy.” Civil War History Volume 10, Number 3 (September 1964) 275-290.

Hodgson, Godfrey. “Storm Over Mexico,” History Today, Vol. 5, issue 3, 2005.

May, Robert E. “Cazneau, Jane Maria Eliza McManus,” Handbook of Texas Online (Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association).  2010. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcaad


Pratt, Julius. “The Origin of ‘Manifest Destiny.’” The American Historical Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Jul., 1927), 795-798.

Reilly, Tom. “Jane McManus Storms: Letters from the Mexican War, 1846-1848.”  The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jul., 1981), pp. 21-44. (Denton, TX: Texas State Historical Association), http://www.jstor.org/stable/3023871

Scott, Donald M. “The Religious Origins of Manifest Destiny.” Divining America, TeacherServe©. National Humanities Center. (February 2, 2014). http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nineteen/nkeyinfo/mandestiny.htm



Books

Corps, Terry. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press. 2006.

Greenburg, Amy S. A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln, and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2012.

Greenburg, Amy S. Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion” A Brief History With Documents. Boston, MA: Bedford / St. Martins. 2012.

Greenburg, Amy S. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005.

Horsman, Reginald. Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism. Cambridge, MA: President and Fellows of Harvard College. 1981.

Hudson, Linda S. Mistress of Manifest Destiny: A Biography of Jane McManus Storm Cazneau, 1807-1878. Austin, TX: Texas State Historical Association. 2001.

James, Edward T., ed. Notable American Women 1607-1950 A Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1, A-F. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1971.

Jones, Howard and Rakestraw, Donald A. Prologue to Manifest Destiny: Anglo-American Relations in the 1840s. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc. 1997.
Maizlish, Stephen E. and Kushma, John J., eds. Essays on American Antebellum Politics, 1840-1866. Arlington, TX: Texas A & M University Press. 1982.  

Manning, Martin and Wyatt, Clarence R, eds. Media and Propaganda in Wartime America

May, Robert E. Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America (Chapel Hill, NC: North Carolina University Press, 2002).

May, Robert E. Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics: Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013.

Merk, Frederick. Manifest Destiny and Mission in American History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1963.

Morrison, Michael A. Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 1997. http://site.ebrary.com.ezproxy.csusm.edu/lib/csusm/docDetail.action?docID=10202619B

Nevins, Allan. Hamilton Fish. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. 1936.

Sampson, Robert D. John L. O’Sullivan and His Times. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press. July 2003.

Treuttner, William H., ed. The West as America: Reinterpreting the Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press and National Museum of American Art. 1991.

Weinberg, Albert K. Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History. Chicago: Quadrangle Books. 1935.



Dissertation

Sampson, Robert D. “Under the Banner of the Democratic Principle: John Louis O’Sullivan, the Democracy, and the Democratic Review.” PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995.



Podcast

Greenburg, Amy S. “A Wicked War.” Pritzker Military Museum  and Library. December 7, 2012. Found at minute-mark 45:34. http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/whats_on/pritzker-military-presents/amy-s-greenberg-wicked-war

Poem

Kipling, Rudyard. “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands.” McClure's Magazine. No.12 (Feb. 1899).
   


Website

Briscoe Center for American History. “A Guide to the Jane McManus Storms Cazneau Papers, 1834-1836, 1849-1865, 1877-1878, 1919.” The University of Texas at Austin. 2014. Accessed March 9, 2014. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01706/cah-01706.html#a0

ushistory.org. “Manifest Destiny.” U.S. History Online Textbook. 2014. Accessed March 11, 2014. http://www.ushistory.org/us/29.asp