Early National Identity-building in John Kirk Townsend’s “Narrative of a Journey Across the Rocky Mountains”

In early nineteenth century, the American West was still full of unknown and unmapped terrain, teeming with undiscovered forms of life. John Kirk Townsend, a travel writer, naturalist-explorer, and nature writer in early-nineteenth-century America, traveled through the unexplored reaches of the Amer...

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