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William Gilpin - Western Nationalist (Paperback)
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William Gilpin - Western Nationalist (Paperback)
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William Gilpin (1815-1894) has been called "America's first
geopolitician." Regarded today as both scientist and quack, Gilpin
was in his own time a recognized authority whose maps were accepted
by Congress as the most accurate available, and his description of
trails and land in the West were read by pioneer and scientist
alike as inspiration and guide. His writings first introduced to
the American public the treasures of the Great Plains (to Gilpin
probably belongs the credit for introducing this well-known term)
and the mountain plateaus of the Rockies. He advertised the future
of the lush valleys of Oregon and the mineral riches that, he was
sure, the American West contained. Gilpin was a cultured, educated
man; his studies and his hours of lonely observation on many trips
across the American prairies had resulted in the theory-in part
true, in part fallacious-about the importance of the Mississippi
Valley to world trade and world peace. To his contemporaries and a
few later historians he was "a man of rare genius and advanced
thought, a prophet and pioneer of civilization," "one of the
wonderful and gifted men of the age, and to him are the citizens of
the Republic, in general, and the West, in particular, immeasurably
indebted." In this biography Thomas L. Karnes traces the life of
William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood
home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter,
pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first
governor of Colorado Territory. But throughout his varied career
there was one task to which Gilpin was always devoted: he was a
publicizer of the West, first in letters to family and friends;
then in newspaper articles, books, and speeches; and finally in
reports that became part of the Congressional Record and that
influenced the actions of Presidents.
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