This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism, exploring their remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion and how they revealed a profound transformation in American culture and the vision of "American Progress.&...

This book offers an original analysis of early westerns and travel pictures through the lens of settler colonialism, exploring their remarkable vision of white settlers' westward expansion and how they revealed a profound transformation in American culture and the vision of "American Progress."