@article{928440,
      author = {Richards, Thomas,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/928440},
      title = {Breakaway Americas : the unmanifest future of the  Jacksonian United States /},
      abstract = {"The author examines six attempts by groups of  nineteenth-century Americans to escape, rather than extend,  the borders of the United States. Although their goals and  methods varied, these six groups -- 'patriots' who  attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada, post-removal  Cherokees in the Indian Territory, Mormons in the Salt Lake  Valley, Anglo-American overland immigrants in both Mexican  California and Oregon, and Anglo-Americans in Texas -- had  a common mind-set: they were not expansionists and did not  believe in manifest destiny. They hoped instead to form  new, independent republics based on the 'American values'  that they felt were no longer being upheld in the United  States"--},
      recid = {928440},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}