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It has become a seminal example of American Western art. The painting serves as an allegory for Manifest Destiny and American westward expansion. The woman in the center is Columbia, the personification of the USA. She moves from the light-skied east to the West, leading settlers who follow her either on foot or by stagecoach, horseback, wagon, or riding steam trains.Progress lays a telegraph wire with one hand and carries a school book in the other. Mythical Paintings, Us History Classroom, Cornell Box, Literature Circle, Virtual Museum Tours, Ap Us History, Primary And Secondary Sources, American Exceptionalism, Middle School History

It has become a seminal example of American Western art. The painting serves as an allegory for Manifest Destiny and American westward expansion. The woman in the center is Columbia, the personification of the USA. She moves from the light-skied east to the West, leading settlers who follow her either on foot or by stagecoach, horseback, wagon, or riding steam trains.Progress lays a telegraph wire with one hand and carries a school book in the other.

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