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Quotes from The Year of Decision 1846 — Bernard DeVoto

1897–1955 United States

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California was almost entirely dream, a dream vague but deep in the minds of a westering people.

The Year of Decision 1846 (1943)

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

The Year of Decision 1846 (1943)

Mr. Lincoln was telling his countrymen that the achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire, and he was telling them that Yesterday must not be permitted to Balkanize it.

The Year of Decision 1846 (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard DeVoto (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.