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The Forgotten Expedition, 1804-1805:The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter If professional historians have accomplished anything in the last generation, it has been to bring an environmental sensibility to the forefront of historical analysis. This has been fertile change. The lens through which Americans of historical importance viewed the landscape, not to mention the […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402