The painting above, called “American Progress” (John Gast, 1872), shows a white woman drifting across the plains of the American West. White settlers, trains, and telegraph wires follow her; Indians and wild animals flee. On her forehead she wears the star of Empire; in her right hand she carries a school book.
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