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...East grew populous, George Harvey felt that man-made structures like lighthouses enhanced their natural surroundings by emphatically signaling progress. But the prevailing mood changed to awe as Americans pushed westward, and it reached a climax in Albert Bierstadt's enormous canvas of the Rocky Mountains. Almost Wagnerian in scope-soaring peaks, resounding cataracts, blazing shafts of sunlight-it shows nature completely overwhelming insignificant man. On a lesser note, such painters as Jasper Francis Cropsey saw nature as a metaphor for God and respectfully depicted people as tiny objects in glorious settings...
...sure, Brown is concerned with as it was, yet that concern is tempered, if not totally determined, by as it is. "Americans," he advises, "who have always looked westward when reading about this period should read this book facing eastward...
...cattle-fat, iridescent with electronic gadgetry. This is the Texas of the Hunts and the Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked by silent, leathery men and their resilient women...
...security for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Although ARVN (Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops, with U.S. air support, inflicted considerable damage during the Lam Son 719 thrust into Laos and made parts of the trail unusable, the Communists reacted by simply moving the key supply network westward and widening it in the bargain. Thus, in recent weeks, Communist activity along the trail has been running at twice the normal rate. U.S. aerial reconnaissance has revealed piles of bamboo and mounds of gravel at many points along the route, indicating that the Communists hope to provide traction...
Since 1790, when the nation's population concentrated statistically at a spot near Baltimore, the American center of gravity has tipped ever westward. Census results show it moving across the map like flowing lava: in 1870 east of Cincinnati, in 1900 near Indianapolis, in 1940 on the Indiana-Illinois line. Today, the computers calculate, the population center lies at lat. 38° 27 min. 47 sec. N., and long. 89° 42 min. 22 sec. W. That puts it in the middle of one of Farmer Lawrence Friederich's fields outside of Mascoutah, Ill., just southeast...