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             132.  V o n Raumer, America and the American People,  I :   138-39.
             133.  Grund, Americans,  225-27.
             134.  Lyell,  Travels in North America,  1 : 149; Bremer, America  of the Fifties,  233;
                 and Wright,  V iews of Society and Manners,  135.
             135.  Axtell, America Perceived,  69.
             136.  Herz, My Travels in America,  97; Xantus, Letters  rom North America,  85; and
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                 von Raumer, America and the American People,  1 : 137.
             137.  Rupert  Brooke,  Letters f rom America  (London:  Sidgwick  and  Jackson,
                 1931), 143 .
             138.  T o cqueville,Journey to America,  199.
             139.  Ibid., 133;Wilhelm, Travels in North America,  2: 196; and Dickens, American
                 Notes,  234.
             140.  John HVessey, My. Vessey of  England (New  o rk: G. P Putnam's Sons, 1956),
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                 140; and David J. Jeremy,  ed., Henry W a nsey and His American Journal, 1794
                 (Philadelphia: American  Philosophical Society ,  1970), 5 1 .
             141 .  Thomas  Campbell,  "Gertrude  o f  Wyoming,"  in  The  Complete  Poetical
                 rMJrks  of   Thomas  Campbell,  ed.  J.  Logie  Robertson  (London:  Henry
                 Fronde,  1907),  50; E. L. Jordan,  ed., America,  Glorious  and  Chaotic Land:
                 Charles Sealsfield Discovers the Y o ung United States (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:
                 Prentice-Hall,  1969),  192;  and  Ulrich  S.  Carrington,  The  Making  of an
                 American: An Adaptation of the Memorable Tales by Charles Sealsfield (Dallas:
                 Southern Methodist  University Press,  1974), 47.
             142.  T o cqueville,Journey to America,  133-37, 199-200.
             143 .  Xantus, Lettersfrom NorthAmerica,  88; Frederick Marryat, Diary inAmerica
                 (Bloomington:  Indiana  University  Press,  1960),  229;  Adam  Hodgson,
                 Remarks during a Journey through North America in the Y e ars  1819, 1820, 1821
                 (Westport,  Conn.:  Negro  Universities  Press,  1970),  75;  and  Vilhelm
                 Dinesen,   "Fra   et   ophold   de   Forenede   Stater,"   Tilskueren
                 (October-December  1887), unpaged.
             144.  Billington, Land of  Savagery,  125; and Athearn,  f;J1estward the Briton,  126.
             145 .  Wilhelm, Travels in North America,  184; andTocqueville,Journey to America,
                 328.
             146.  The term squaw was probably a European corruption of an  Indian word.
                 Its connotation of a demeaned slave  seems  to have  existed originally only
                 in the minds of non-Indians. Susan Gouge, "Let's Ban the W  o rd 'Squaw,'"
                 Ohoyo: Bulletin of American Indian-Alaska Native rMJmen 9  Guly  1981): 10.
                 See  also  Jean  C.  Goodwill,  "Squaw  Is  a  Dirty W  o rd,"  in I s sues f o r  the
                 Seventies: Canada's Indians,  ed.  Norman  Sheffe  (Toronto: McGraw-Hill,
                 1970), 50-52; and Lillian Schlissel,  rMJmen's Diaries of the f;J1estward Journey
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                 (New  o rk: Schocken Books, 1982), 85 .
             147.  Louis Philippe, Diary of  My Travels,  85; Franz Loher, Land und Leute in der
                 A  l ten  und Neuen f;J1elt,  vol.  I  (Gottingen:  G.  H. Wigand,  1855),  173; and



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