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53 . Athearn, Westward the Briton, 66-67.
54. Pulszky, White, Red, Black, II9; Busch, Travels, 136; and Trollope, Domestic
Manners oj the Americans, 6 8 .
5 5 . Sealsfield, Americans as They Are, 9.
56. Baker, America Perceived, 39-40.
57· Ibid., 45-46.
5 8 . William A. Bell, New Tracks in North America, vol. 1 (London: Chapman
and Hall, 1869), 16.
59. Charles V. Crosnier de V a rigny, The W o men oj the United States, trans.
Arabella W a rd (New Y o rk: Dodd, Mead, 1 8 95), 18-19.
60. Frances Wright, V iews of Society and Manners in America (Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1963), 23, 221 .
6 1 . Martineau, Society in America, l : r o8.
62. Harriet Martineau, Retrospect of Western Travel, vol. 1 (London: Saunders
and Otley, 1838), 24.
63. Bremer, America oj the Pifties, 245 .
64. Martineau, Society in America, I : ro8.
65. 0. Drevdahl, Pra Emigrationens Amerika 1891 (Oslo: N.p., 1891), unpagi­
nated; and Franklin D. Scott, "Soren jaabaek, Americanizer in Norway,"
Norwegian American Studies and Records 17 (1952): 92.
66. Axel Bruun, Breve ra Amerika (Christiana: A. Cammermeyer, 1870), 17.
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67. Alan Conway, ed., The Welsh in America: Letters from the Immigrants
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961), 257; and William and
Robert Chambers,Journey rom New Orleans to California, 1849, and Other
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Interesting Excerpts f rom Chambers} Journal (London: W and R. Chambers,
1 8 56), 1 3 .
68. American Settler, 6 September 1884.
69. James Axtell, ed., America Perceived:A V iew from Abroad in the 17th Century
(West Haven, Conn.: Pendulum Press, 1974), 122-23,
70. E. Stanley, Journal of a Tour in America, 1 8 24-1825 (London: Privately
. printed, 1930 , 152; and Perey G. Ebbutt, Emigrant Life in Kansas (London:
)
S. Sonnenschien, 1886), 45. See, f o r example, Blaine T. Williams, "The
Frontier Family: Demographic Fact and Historical Myth," in Essays on
the American West, ed. Harold M. Hollingsworth and Sandra L. Myres
(Austin: University of e xas Press, 1969), 40-65 .
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71. Athearn, Westward the Briton, 65.
72. T o cqueville, Democracy in America, 468;William P. Dallmann, The S p irit oj
America as Interpreted in the W o rks of Charles Sealsfield (St. Louis:Washington
University Studies, 1935), 44-45; and Merle Curti and Kendall Birr, "The
Immigrant and the American Image in Europe, 1 8 60-1914," Mississippi
valley Historical Review 37 (September 1950): 221 .
73 . Owen, "American Frontiersman," pt. 5, 20-22.

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