<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span></strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion</strong>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">This is a popular American painting addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. <strong></strong></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong></p>
<strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>Washington University in St. Louis</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/193</strong></p>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span><br /></strong></em>
<strong>Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Daniel Boone</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap is among the most popular American paintings addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. Like Charles Wimar in The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1853, WU 4355), Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature. Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/19um</strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content"><span class="field-content">Gift of Nathaniel Phillips, 1890</span></span></strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="irc_su" style="text-align:left;">Western Expansion: Emigrants to the Western Country</span></strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion, Manifest Destiny</strong>
<strong>Wagon train with settler traveling west in America</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>http://ushistoryimages.com/western-expansion.shtm</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Engraving, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>American Progress</strong></em>
<strong>Weatward expansion, Manifest Destiny</strong>
<p><strong>This painting is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book as well. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This painting has come to represent the ideal of Manifest Destiny.<br /></strong></p>
<strong>John Gast</strong>
<p>Museum of the American West</p>
<p>Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA</p>
<strong>1872</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<p><strong>Oil painting</strong></p>
<p><strong>12 ¾” x 16 ¾”</strong></p>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>Annexation</strong></em>
<strong>Annexation of the Texas Republic</strong>
<strong>Newspaper article from the United States Magazine and Democratic Review</strong>
<strong>For eighty years it was assumed this article was written by John L. O'Sullivan, but recent scholarship claims Jane Cazneau wrote the article.</strong>
<strong>http://pdcrodas.webs.ull.es/anglo/OSullivanAnnexation.pdf</strong>
<strong>United States Magazine and Democratic Review</strong>
<strong><strong></strong>July-August 1845</strong>
<p><strong style="font-size:15.4841px;font-family:sans-serif;"><br /></strong></p>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
Newspaper
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Document</strong>
<em><strong>Frederick Merk</strong></em>
<strong>Frederick Merk, Harvard professor of History</strong>
<strong>Merk in the process of giving a lecture to a class</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102977/Edwin-A-Lahey-NF-39.aspx</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Photograph, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>John L. O'Sullivan</strong></em>
<strong>John L. O'Sullivan, editor, United States Magazine and Democratic Review</strong>
<strong>John L. O'Sullivan, portrait photograph</strong>
<strong> Timothy H. O’Sullivan</strong>
<p><strong>The Black Hawk War: Utah's Forgotten Tragedy</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.blackhawkproductions.com/Manifest%20Destiny.htm</strong></p>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Image size:</strong><br /><strong>201 × 248</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>Latest From Vera Cruz</strong></em>
<strong>Mexican American War</strong>
<strong>Up to date news on the progress of the war, from Vera Cruz</strong>
<strong>Jane Cazneau</strong>
<strong>New York Tribune</strong>
<strong>New York Tribune</strong>
<strong>April 9, 1847</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Newspaper</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Document</strong>
<em><strong>Mexican Cession</strong></em>
<strong>Mexican-American War</strong>
<strong>The Mexican Cession was the result of the Mexican-American War from 1846-1848. President James K. Polk had promised to fulfill the "Manifest Destiny" before he left office, even if it meant going to war. With the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In exchange for $15 million, the Mexican government under Santa Anna gave away 1/2 of their land. </strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<p><strong>Ancestry.com</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hummingbird/California/mexican_war.htm</strong></p>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Map, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Document</strong>
<em><strong>Robert D. Sampson</strong></em>
<strong>Historian Robert D. Sampson</strong>
<strong>Photographic portrait</strong>
<strong>University of Illinois</strong>
<strong>University of Illinois</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Photograph, portrait</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>