In 1856 E.L. Magoon's curious book entitled Westward Empire drew the conclusion that "all healthful expansion and improvement is 'out West'" from the premise that "by a natural movement, in not one of its great elements has civilization gone eastward an inch since authentic history began." (215)

Manifest Destiny: A Study of Nationalist Expansionism in American History (1935)
Albert Weinberg

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