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BOOK REVIEW

The men who led the migration west

Historian Robert Morgan presents portraits of 10 men who were key to Manifest Destiny

Robert Morgan gives 10 brief but detailed biographies. Robert Morgan gives 10 brief but detailed biographies. (RANDI ANGLIN)
By Kathryn Lang
November 24, 2011
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Robert Morgan presents ten portraits of men instrumental in furthering the goal of Manifest Destiny. Beginning with Thomas Jefferson, these “expansionist Americans’’ helped realize the dream of a transcontinental nation, their stories spanning a century of turmoil from the mid eighteenth to the mid nineteen century.

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LIONS OF THE WEST:

Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion

By Robert Morgan

Algonquin, 497 pp., illustrated, $29.95