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These essays plot the complex relationship between the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and the modern American West. The writers explore the earliest influences on Jeffersons geographical imagination and his ideas about westward expansion; his passion for participatory democracy; the legacy of his enthusiasm for rural life and the scientific exploration of western habitats; his curiosity about and concern for Native Americans as well as his support of land acquisition by white settlers. The questions he posed about the West and what it might become still hold relevance for westerners today. The diverse contributors include John Logan Allen, Anthony F. C. Wallace, Robert A. Williams, Jr., Robert Gottlieb, Helen M. Ingram, Mary G. Wallace, Peter S. Onuf, Elliott West, Mary Clearman Blew, and Patricia Nelson Limerick.

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title Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West From Conquest to - photo 1
title:Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West : From Conquest to Conservation
author:Ronda, James P.
publisher:University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin:0826317758
print isbn13:9780826317759
ebook isbn13:9780585182537
language:English
subjectJefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Views on the West (U.S.)--Congresses, West (U.S.)--History--To 1848--Congresses, United States--Territorial expansion--Congresses.
publication date:1997
lcc:F592.T47 1997eb
ddc:973.4/6/092
subject:Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Views on the West (U.S.)--Congresses, West (U.S.)--History--To 1848--Congresses, United States--Territorial expansion--Congresses.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West
From Conquest to Conservation
Edited and with an Introduction
James P. Ronda
Missouri Historical Society Press St Louis Page iv For - photo 2
Missouri Historical Society Press
St. Louis
Page iv
For Merrill D. Peterson
Keeping the past alive in the present
1997 by the Missouri Historical Society Press All rights reserved. First Edition
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas Jefferson and the changing West :
from conquest to conservation / edited
and with an introduction by James P. Ronda.
1st ed. p. cm.
Papers presented at a 1994 conference
organized by the Missouri Historical Society.
Includes index
ISBN 0-8263-1775-8
1. Jefferson, Thomas,
17431826Views on the West
(U.S.) Congresses.
2. West (U.S.)History
To 1848Congresses.
3. United StatesTerritorial expansion
Congresses. I. Ronda, James P., 1943-.
F592.T47 1997
973.4'6'092dc20 96-25330 CIP
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Contents
Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
James P. Ronda
xi
1. Imagining the West
The View from Monticello
John Logan Allen
3
2. "The Obtaining Lands"
Thomas Jefferson and the Native Americans
Anthony F. C. Wallace
25
3. Thomas Jefferson
Indigenous American Storyteller
Robert A. Williams, Jr.
43
4. Reinventing Place
Community and Conflict in a Changing West
Robert Gottlieb
75
5. An "Empire of Liberty"
Thomas Jefferson and Governing Natural Resources in the West
Helen M. Ingram and Mary G. Wallace
93
6. Thomas Jefferson, Missouri, and the "Empire for Liberty"
Peter S. Onuf
111
7. Great Dreams, Great Plains
Jefferson, the Bents, and the West
Elliott West
155

Page vi
8. The Exhausted West
A Last Look at Landscape
Mary Clearman Blew
173
9. Explaining Ourselves:
Jefferson, History, and the Changing West
Patricia Nelson Limerick
185
Contributors
195
Index
197

Page vii
Illustrations
Maps
1. Louisiana, Virginia, and Carolina
2
2. Louisiana
42
3. Lewis and Clark's Track across Western North America
110
4. New Map of the United States
154

Page ix
Acknowledgments
Thomas Jefferson once described St. Louis as "the center of our western operations." For generations of fur traders, soldiers, Indian agents, Oregon Trail emigrants, and California gold rushers, St. Louis was the place where the West began. So it is especially fitting that a book about Jefferson and the West have its origins in the Gateway City.
More than anyone else, it was Merrill D. Peterson who brought the idea of a national conference on Jefferson and the West to the attention of the Missouri Historical Society and its director, Robert R. Archibald. The 1994 conference was fashioned in large part by a planning committee that included Robert R. Archibald, Susan Flader (University of Missouri-Columbia), Patricia N. Limerick (University of Colorado-Boulder), Gerald D. Nash (University of New Mexico), Peter Raven (Missouri Botanical Garden), James P. Ronda (University of Tulsa), Richard Etulain (University of New Mexico), and Eric Sandweiss (Missouri Historical Society). Many members of the planning committee also served as respondents and session chairs at the conference. The success of the gathering was due in no small part to generous financial support from the Liz Claiborne Foundation, the Thomas Jefferson Commemoration Commission, the Missouri Botanical Garden, and the Missouri Historical Society.
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