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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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