“March into the Desert,” from: Race Life of the Aryan Peoples, Vol. 2 (1907),
pp. 64-69. To access this reading, go to: https://www.hathitrust.org/ and type in the name of the book. Be sure to click on Vol. 2.
readings have briefly covered the oftentimes brutal conquest of California from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. Anglo colonization of the state fueled racial and environmental warfare on a massive scale. Much of this brutal history was actively erased as the new settlers started selling sunny Southern California as the embodiment of the American Dream.
In a well-written and revised paragraph or two, address how Widney’s “March into the Desert” attempted to erase this brutality while upholding the concept of Manifest Destiny. Be sure to pull specific passages out of his text to support your assertion.