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35 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2, pp. 579–81.
36 Ibid., p. 585.
37 Sullivan, Our Times, vol. 1, p. 250.
38 Mencken, The American Language, suppl. 2, p. 597.
8: ‘Manifest Destiny’: Taming the West
1 Dillon, Meriwether Lewis, p. 336.
2 Hart, The Story of American Roads, p. 24.
3 Root and de Rochement, Eating in America, pp. 110–11.
4 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 3, p. 534.
5 Moulton, The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, pp. 181–227.
6 Ibid., p. 141.
7 Cutright, Lewis and Clark, pp. viii–ix.
8 Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, p. 263.
9 Tocqueville, Journey to America, p. 185.
10 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, pp. 91–3
11 Ibid., p. 93.
12 Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 200.
13 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 121
14 Gies and Gies, The Ingenious Yankees, p. 255.
15 Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p. 149.
16 American Heritage, February 1962., p. 5.
17 Atlantic Monthly, November 1992., p. 152.
18 Dillard, American Talk, p. xix.
19 Zinn, op. cit., p. 260.
20 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 3, p. 32.
21 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, p. 62.
22 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, pp. 22–3.
23 Ibid., p. 24.
24 Weston, The Real American Cowboy, p. 136.
25 Dillard, op. cit., p. 114.
26 Weston, op. cit., p. 210.
27 Savage, Cowboy Life, p. 6
28 American Heritage, February 1971, p. 68.
29 Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 83.
30 Holt, Phrase and Word Origins, p. 80.
31 Washington Post, 8 December 1989, p. C5.
32 Boorstin, Hidden History, p. 288; and Flexner, I Hear America Talking, pp. 111–12.
33 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 199.
34 Harris, Good to Eat, p. 117.
35 The Economist, 10 August 1991, p. 29.
36 Ibid., 8 June 1991, p. 49.
37 Quoted in Atlanta Journal, 17 March 1991, p. A12.
9: The Melting-Pot: Immigration in America
1 Jones, American Immigration, pp. 104–5.
2 Ibid., pp. 114, 290.
3 Ibid., p. 107.
4 Ibid., p. 124.
5 Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, p. 317.
6 Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, p. 249.
7 P. Smith, A People’s History of the United States, vol. 6, p. 344.
8 Grosvenor (ed.), Those Inventive Americans, p. 146.
9 New Yorker, 9 April 1990, p. 30.
10 American Heritage, April 1992, p. 58.
11 Ibid., p. 62.
12 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 6, p. 366.
13 New York Times, 26 August 1990, p. 6E.
14 Zinn, op. cit., p. 341; and Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America, p. 413.
15 Jones, op. cit., pp. 140–1.
16 Dillard, American Talk, p. 30.
17 Mencken, The American Language, 4th edn., p. 90.
18 Dillard, op. cit., p. 82.
19 Marckwardt, American English, p. 57; and Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience, p. 287.
20 Carver, A History of English in Its Own Words, p. 242.
21 Fischer, Albion’s Seed, p. 431.
22 Jones, op. cit., pp. 270–1.
23 American Heritage, April 1992, p. 62.
24 Ibid., p. 62.
25 Mencken, op. cit., p. 251.
26 Time, 13 June 1927, p. 12.
27 Mencken, op. cit., p. 254.
28 American Heritage, April 1992, p. 70.
29 Jones, op. cit., p. 298.
30 Mencken, op. cit., p. 253.
31 Beam, Abridged Pennsylvania German Dictionary, p. iv.
32 Ibid., pp. viii–ix.
33 Beam, Pennsylvania German Dictionary, p. v.
34 Marckwardt, op. cit., p. 59.
35 P. Smith, op. cit., vol. 4, p. 741.
36 Jones, op. cit., pp. 264–5.
37 Quoted in New York Times, 14 October 1990, p. 4E.
38 Boorstin, Hidden History, pp. 214–15.
39 Jones, op. cit., p. 39.
40 Zinn, op. cit., p. 293.
41 Tannahill, Sex in History, p. 400.
42 Jones, op. cit., p. 133.
43 Ibid., p. 312.
44 Johnson, Modern Times, p. 204.
45 Quoted in Wills, Inventing America, p. xx.
46 Time, 13 June 1927, p. 12.
47 National Geographic, September 1991, pp. 66–7.
48 Jones, op. cit., pp. 32–5.
49 Fischer, op. cit., p. 305.
50 McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, p. 18.
51 Zinn, op. cit., pp. 174–5.
52 Ibid., p. 203.
53 P. Smith, op. cit., vol 4, p. 586.
54 Zinn, op. cit.,