1. American progress through pain
In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. ... America was still a new country, and many considered it as a Garden of Eden, plentiful and wild. ... The scene suggest a loving family of valiant pioneers living off of the abundance of nature, but the importance of ugly tree remains and axes in close proximity makes the viewer wonder if Cole did not want to symbo...
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